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15* TheAntichrist
16* [[CelestialParagonsAndArchangels The Archangels]]
17** [[ArchangelGabriel Gabriel]]
18** [[ArchangelMichael Michael]]
19** [[ArchangelRaphael Raphael]]
20** [[ArchangelUriel Uriel]]
21* CainAndAbel
22** {{Cain}}
23* {{God}}
24* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse
25* JacobAndEsau
26* {{UsefulNotes/Jesus}}
27* UsefulNotes/TheVirginMary
28* UsefulNotes/PatronSaints
29* {{Satan}}
30** {{Asmodeus}}
31** {{Baphomet}}
32** {{Beelzebub}}
33** [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]
34* TheThreeWiseMen
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42[[WMG:{{God}}]]
43->''"I Am That I Am."''
44* AmbiguousGender: More common in Judaism, but present in other views. The reasoning being, why would a perfect being (who simply "is" according to the quote above) have a mortal gender identity? Averted in many Christian dogmas, which explicitly portray God as male.
45* AnimalMotifs: God has a snake motif in the Old Testament. He turns Aaron's staff into a snake to showcase His power, and punishes the Israelites who spoke against Him by releasing a pack of venomous snakes into their midst. When they ask for mercy, He has Moses create the Nehushtan, a bronze snake that healed their injuries.
46* AwesomenessIsVolatile: His presence can be lethal for mere mortals.
47* BadassBoast: Has quite a few, but His extended rant on His own awesomeness in ''Literature/BookOfJob'' is especially notable.
48* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Because God [[WindsOfDestinyChange says so]].
49%%* BerserkButton: God hates sin, but the most particular sins He punishes severely are idolatry and blasphemy.
50* BigGood: To followers of the Abrahamic religions, He's this.
51* BlueAndOrangeMorality: God's moral standards are beyond human comprehension.
52* CatchPhrase: "I am The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Later He added "I am The Lord who took Israel out of bondage in Egypt". Doubles as BadassBoast.
53* DivineIntervention: He is divine. The Bible as a whole is about Him intervening.
54* DoNotTauntCthulhu: God does NOT take kindly of mockery. There's a reason "Don't take His name in vain" is one of the 10 Commandments, and many {{Blasphemous Boast}}s have been answered.
55* EldritchAbomination: A benevolent example (though many anti-religious people would disagree), being a incomprehensible being that at one point defines Himself by the extent to which He is unlike humans.
56* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: His history with Israel is a ''long and messy one'' to say the least, and He's nearly always angry or despairing with its people. Despite wanting to forsake it forever on several occasions, [[GodsHandsAreTied He can't]], as it would hurt His namesake, essentially taking His own name in vain.
57%%* FourStarBadass: "Lord of Hosts"
58%%* FriendToAllChildren:
59* FriendToAllLivingThings: He even cares about the sparrows. Several passages make it very clear that while humanity is given dominion of the physical Earth, all are his creation and should be given due respect.
60* GodIsDispleased: There are times where He withdraws His protection of Israel when they disobey Him, usually when invasions of other nations occur.
61* GodIsGood: Generally seen as the baseline of morality.
62* GoodIsNotNice: God loves. Sometimes the love is really, really ''tough'' love.
63* GoodIsNotSoft: He is compassionate to those in need, especially to those who turn to Him for counsel, aid or solace. But He has no qualms whatsoever with punishing someone when they've done evil and are unrepentant of it. And even the virtuous sometimes have to go through some intense hardship before they can get their reward from Him, as Job learned.
64* GreenEyedMonster: He describes Himself as an impassioned deity on at least one occasion.
65* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: His presence is so great that seeing Him is almost invariably fatal.
66* HolyIsNotSafe: Seeing just His radiance rendered Paul blind and seeing His face is fatal. When Moses asked to see God's face, He refused due to this trope, but compromised for Moses to see His back instead. One of the beatitudes specifically mentions how the pure in heart will see God.
67* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Goes with the whole "omnipotence" thing.
68* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Zigzagged with BlueAndOrangeMorality. God is depicted as holy and righteous that it's impossible for Him to commit sin.
69* IHaveManyNames: Along with a bit of SpellMyNameWithAnS.
70* KillItWithFire: There are plenty of examples of God killing people for sinning against Him in this manner (i.e., Sodom and Gomorrah).
71* KillItWithWater: In the story of Noah,[[note]]Specifically, Genesis chapters 6-9.[[/note]] God floods the world for 40 days and 40 nights to cleanse all the wickedness of humanity from Earth. In other words, God drowns every living thing except for Noah, his family, and a large, select group of animals on the Ark.
72* LightTheWay: The Bible connects God to both [[LightIsGood light]] and [[DarkIsNotEvil darkness]].
73* MyGreatestFailure: Mankind. He grieved and regretted ever making it, and nearly opted to destroy it outright in a flood.
74* TheOmnipresent: One of His attributes in the doctrine is that He's everywhere, and it's impossible to escape His presence, even in the grave and/or Hell.
75* OurGodsAreDifferent: Jews, Christians, and Muslims have three different ideas. Long story short, Jews believe in one intangible God who [[TheChosenPeople chose them above all others for certain responsibilities]], and thus holds them to a higher standard; Christians believe in one God who is also three (though there are denominations that don't believe in the holy trinity, such as the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Latter Day Saints/Mormons and the Arian sect) but does not favor any particular ethnic group; and Muslims believe in one God who plays no ethnic favorites.
76* ThePatriarch: He's usually described as Our Father above.
77* ThePowerOfLove: John 3:16 says that His love for the world is what allowed for humanity's redemption.
78* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: His response when His people start deviating from His commands or questioning Him is often to give them a quick reminder of His past demonstrations of power. He's especially fond of boasting about His creating the Universe and His rescuing the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
79%%* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: A lot of this in the Old Testament.
80* SecretTestOfCharacter: He often tests His people's loyalty to Him. His commandment to Abraham to sacrifice Issac being one example.
81* TheUnpronouncable: YHWH is not supposed to be pronounced according to most mainstream Abrahamic Faiths.
82* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: While it's His and His alone to carry out His wrath, He Himself [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife gets no pleasure]] from the deaths of the wicked, and instead implores people to turn from their wicked ways and live.
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84[[WMG:Sentient Talking Snake, ({{Satan}} according to some traditions); sometimes named Nahash]]
85->''Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field.''
86* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The snake vanishes off the face of the earth after tempting Eve to eat the ForbiddenFruit, despite being responsible for mankind receiving knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden and subsequently cursed, the existence of death, the existence of the entire human race, and the first evil act ever.
87* TheCorrupter: Corrupts Eve into disobeying God, thus condemning the human race to a curse.
88* OurDragonsAreDifferent: One interpretation. Before being made to crawl upon his belly he must have had legs. What would you call a walking, talking serpent with (at least) human level intelligence? It's worth noting that "dragon" in some translations of the Bible, is a word used in explicit reference to Satan.
89* TalkingAnimal: A serpent that can hold intelligent conversations with Eve.
90
91[[WMG:Adam and Eve]]
92->''And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creep upon the earth."''
93* AdamAndEvePlot: Being the {{Trope Namer}}s, they were the propagators of humanity and had numerous children (though only Cain, Abel, and Seth are named in Genesis itself).
94* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Many biblical scholars argue that Adam was the most handsome man and Eve the most beautiful woman, being directly created by God.
95* DoubleStandard: Some people have put the blame solely on Eve, others on Adam.
96* TheExile: Adam and Eve were permanently banished from the Garden of Eden for disobeying God.
97* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Eve, like Adam, is naked because humans were still innocent. Until they eat the forbidden fruit and are banished from the Garden.
98* MeaningfulName: Adam was the first man, his name means "man". Eve was the first woman. Her name in Hebrew means "living one" or "source of life".
99* MethuselahSyndrome: Not only Adam and Eve, but plenty of their offspring. It is not until after Exodus things start to even out.
100* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Them eating the forbidden fruit led to centuries' worth of sin and sorrow. They don't fit the standard definition of "heroes", though; they're just guileless humans.
101* SadlyMythtaken: The Bible does not call the fruit an apple. The portrayal of said fruit as an apple is a StealthPun on the Latin word ''malus'', meaning "evil", and thus became widespread. The fruit has been speculated over the ages to be anything from a pomegranate, to a fig, to ''wheat''.
102* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Their consumption of a single fruit from the Tree of Knowledge is the JustSoStory for why men toil to farm food from the earth, women endure painful childbirth, and all humans are inherently sinful and eventually die.
103
104[[WMG:Cain]]
105->''"Am I my brother's keeper?"''
106* BeingEvilSucks: According to Islam, he felt really bad after killing Abel but he never really repented.
107* BiblicalBadGuy: He infamously became the first murderer by killing his brother Abel.
108* CainAndAbel: The {{Trope Namer|s}}. He's a villainous older sibling who murdered his younger brother out of jealousy and refused to repent after being confronted about it by God.
109* TheExile: Exiled from human society for the murder of his brother Abel.
110* DisproportionateRetribution: Sure, he may have gotten shafted in the contest, but was murder really the best way to resolve the issue?
111* GreenEyedMonster: He murdered his brother because of he coveted his land.
112* JokerImmunity: The ur-example. He commits the first murder and is protected from retribution ever after by his mark.
113* {{Jerkass}}: He killed his brother just because his vegetable sacrifice wasn't as acceptable as his brother's who instead offered lambs.
114* NameOfCain: TropeMaker. He's the first person to ever commit murder, and no one else in the Bible shares his name, thus cementing its status as a name associated with badness.
115* RedRightHand: God gave him a mark to protect him from harm, specifically anyone who might seek vengeance upon him for Abel's death. Exactly what kind of mark is not canonically specified, and interpretations vary.
116* TheResenter: Bible commentators indicate that Cain was this due to his parents having been driven out of the garden of Eden.
117* WalkingTheEarth: After Cain murdered his bother, he became a wanderer until he settled in the Land of Nod.
118
119[[WMG:Abel]]
120->"Why are you angry? Why that scowl on your face? If you had done the right thing, you would be smiling." [[note]] Mental note: Never talk down to Cain[[/note]]
121* CainAndAbel: The Abel. His righteous actions made him favored by God, which contrasts his brother's unrighteous sacrifice.
122* SacrificialLamb: He only appears for a few lines of text, and is the first murder victim in all of creation.
123** Ironically, this event was preceded by Abel himself sacrificing a sheep of his to please God. KarmicDeath, anyone?
124* YoungestChildWins: Subverted since he dies, and Adam and Eve have another son after his death.
125
126[[WMG:Enoch]]
127->''He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.''
128* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Some may say he was just PutOnABus.
129* BreakoutCharacter: There's a non-canonical book about him. It influenced ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
130* PalsWithJesus -- or rather, Jesus's dad.
131* MethuselahSyndrome: He lived for three hundred and sixty-five years, notably a shorter lifespan than Methuselah.
132
133[[WMG:Methuselah]]
134->''And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.''
135* MethuselahSyndrome: {{Trope Namer|s}}, living 969 years; more than any other man.
136
137[[WMG:Nimrod]]
138->''He was a mighty hunter before The Lord.''
139%%* BiblicalBadGuy
140* ChekhovsGunman: The nation he built, Babylon, would become a Middle Eastern power.
141
142[[WMG:Noah]]
143->''There went in two and two unto Noah into the Ark, the male and the female.''
144* AnimalLover: One of the archetypal examples, seeing as he built the Ark to save all the world's animals.
145%%* CassandraTruth
146* CoolBoat: The Ark, big enough to house at least two of every animal and Noah's entire family.
147* {{Foreshadowing}}: Noah cursed his great-grandson Canaan. Fast forward a couple centuries later, Canaan had become a nation so wicked that God sent the Israelites to completely annihilate the people.
148* ImprobableAge: Building a boat when you're 500.
149* MethuselahSyndrome: The last person to live over 900.
150* TheyCalledMeMad: They called me mad, but I'll show them, I'll bring two of every animal on The Ark, and [[ComedicSociopathy lets see who's laughing when they're drowning and I'm floating!]] ([[Creator/EddieIzzard Except the floating ones and the swimming ones.]])
151
152[[WMG:Children of Israel]]
153->''"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people."''
154* GreatBigBookOfEverything: Literature/TheBible (Tanakh) and the Talmud acted as this.
155%%* TheCommandments: Obviously.
156* TheClan: Originally a confederation of tribes. Hence the term "children of..."
157* {{Determinator}}: And they're still around. Really! Although ten of the original twelve tribes are unaccounted for.
158%%* EarnYourHappyEnding: Several times
159* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Israel's history with God is a sine wave of loyalty and disloyalty, usually depending on the men leading them at the moment.
160* IGaveMyWord : The word "testament" implies "treaty of vassalship". In other words Israel is a sub-kingdom that accepted {{God}} as their FeudalOverlord.
161%%* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne
162* MeaningfulName: "Israel" means [[CallingTheOldManOut one who argues with God]].
163* TheMigration: To the Promised Land. The first, and the return of the exiles from Babylon
164%%* ProudScholarRace
165* ProudWarriorRace: At times in the Bible, though not so much afterward. Is there a Proud Survivor Race trope?
166* SlaveRace: Once, they were all slaves to the Egyptians.
167* SlaveLiberation: Twice. First when Moses led them out of Egypt and second when Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon and let them go back to their ancestral homelands (though the second one is debatable).
168* TooDumbToLive: The ease with which they are led astray from God is mind-boggling, particularly given that they can usually remember seeing one of His miracles in person, or hearing about such from a close relative whenever it happens. Golden Calf incident, we're looking at you.
169%%* ToughLove: Receives a lot of this, to say the least.
170* ZenSurvivor: Despite slavery in Egypt; being conquered by the Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans; persecution by Christians for not accepting Jesus; and persecution by Nazis for being supposedly genetically inferior, they keep on keeping on.
171
172[[WMG:Abraham]]
173->''"I will bless those who bless you. But I will curse those who curse you. And through you I will bless all nations."''
174* AintTooProudToBeg: Despite the fact that the Sodomites lived a hedonistic lifestyle at the expense of others that he could never condone, and the fact that he himself promoted a lifestyle that was the opposite of that of the Sodomites in terms of treating others with respect and hospitality, Abraham nonetheless begs for their lives when God intends to destroy them. Abraham justifies this by asking if Sodom would be spared in the merit of anywhere from fifty to ten upstanding people. Each time the number is lowered, God says He would spare the City if such were the case. However, the narrative eventually makes plain that not even one of the Sodomites is worthy of being spared, with Abraham's nephew Lot only spared in his uncle's merit.
175* AngelUnaware: Is rewarded for entertaining three of these... with a long-awaited son in his old age
176* BargainWithHeaven: He urges God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah if 50 righteous people can be found there, going down to 45, 40, 30, 20, to as few as 10. God agrees to all of these requests, but unfortunately there isn't even 10 righteous people in the two cities combined.
177* BrotherSisterIncest: He married his half sister.
178* TheChosenOne: He was chosen by God to become the father of the Jewish people.
179%%* CoolOldGuy
180* IdiotBall: Locked his wife Sarah in a box while passing through Egypt, for fear that she would be taken by the Egyptians on account of [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman her beauty]]. He didn't stop to think that ''maybe, just maybe'' the box would have to pass through Customs.
181* ILied: Well, more like told a half-truth: told the Egyptians (who found her in the above incident) that [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend she was his sister]]. (She was his half-sister, as well as his wife.) He did this to protect himself from being killed by the men in order to obtain her. [[spoiler: (Which they never did, even upon finding out the truth.)]] The lie causes all sorts of mayhem. [[AesopAmnesia Oh, and this happened more than once.]]
182* HumanSacrifice: Abraham was almost sacrificed (according to a Midrash), but escaped. Later, he almost sacrificed Isaac, [[note]]Ishmael according to the Muslims[[/note]] but just barely didn't.
183* MachoMasochism: Within this universe, he's the ur-example of one of the most common in the Old World.
184* MeaningfulRename: God has him change his name from Abram (High father) to Abraham (Father of many). Also significant since the change was made by putting a letter from god's name, YHVH, into Arbam's name(the H). The letter ties into the covenant union between God and Abraham (the name change happens in a passage where God talks about the covenant) and the meaning ties into God's promise to Abraham (which was a big part of what Abram personally got out of the covenant).
185%%* MethuselahSyndrome
186* TheMourningAfter: Averted. After Sarah dies, he marries another (much younger) woman named Keturah. (Who some believe is his concubine Hagar, by another name.)
187* PalsWithJesus: Is called a "friend of God."
188* ParentalFavoritism:
189** He preferred Isaac over Ishmael, but was ready to sacrifice Isaac[[note]]According to the Muslims, it was Ishmael who was almost sacrificed.[[/note]] to God when God told him to. Good thing [[SecretTestOfCharacter it was just a test]].
190** The Genesis account indicates that Abraham actually pleaded with God for Ishmael to receive some sort of blessing from God as well. Isaac was really TheChosenOne BecauseDestinySaysSo.
191* ParentsAsPeople: The Bible doesn't delve into much details about Abraham's relationship with his children, and the only records of his involvement into his children's lives were to banish Ishmael away at the request of his wife Sarah, and his sacrifice of Isaac.
192* SacredHospitality: God is debating whether to destroy the city of Sodom. Abraham bargains God down to letting the city survive if there are ten good men. God's messengers go to Sodom, and they meet Lot and his family. The Sodomites want to rape them. Lot's even willing to let them rape his daughters rather than these men. The city is destroyed.
193
194[[WMG:Sarah]]
195* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: She burst out laughing when the angels promised she would have a son because she was menopausal (the narration delicately mentions she ceased to have "[[NoPeriodsPeriod what women have]]"). Yet one year later, Isaac was born.
196* AngelUnaware: Entertains three of these, and is rewarded with a long-awaited son.
197%%* CoolOldLady
198* GreenEyedMonster: Gets jealous of Hagar and later exiles her along with Ishmael into the wilderness, despite knowing that both of them couldn't possibly survive in the [[ThirstyDesert desert]].
199* GoGoEnslavement: Sort of. She is taken to be one of the Pharaoh's concubines. [[spoiler: [[AuthorsSavingThrow But before he can defile her, God makes Pharaoh sick and the rest of his harem sterile, and Pharaoh gives her back to Abraham.]]]]
200* LawOfInverseFertility: Her maidservant Hagar gets pregnant by Abraham by sleeping with him once; Sarah has always been infertile (which is why she gave Hagar to Abraham in the first place as per the Code of Hammurabi.)
201* MeaningfulRename: Renamed from "Sarai" to "Sarah" (though both translate as "Princess").Similar to her husband, this change was made by putting a letter ("h") from God's name (YHVH) into Sarai's name, and was made in a chapter addressing the covenant between God and Abraham.
202* ParentalFavoritism: She favours her biological son Isaac to her legal son Ishmael, and sends the latter away to keep him from sharing Isaac's inheritance.
203%%* ParentsAsPeople
204* PunkInTheTrunk: An OlderThanFeudalism subversion exists in a legend where Abraham has his wife Sarah locked in a box (a literal trunk) because he fears that she will be taken by the Egyptians on account of her [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman beauty]]. This ploy does not work, as he [[IdiotBall didn't stop to think]] that ''maybe'', just maybe, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the box would have to pass through Customs.]]
205* RichBitch: When her jealousy gets the better of her (see above) she abuses her pregnant servant.[[note]]Granted, said servant got high-and-mighty and forgot her place (or perhaps her relationship to Abraham), but it got so bad that Hagar tried to run away. The only reason she came back was because an angel told her to.[[/note]] Also, she sends Ishmael (legally ''her son'') out into the desert, not giving a rip what happens to him because she favors her biological son Isaac.
206%%* SacredHospitality: See "Angel Unaware"
207* SilverVixen: Despite her age, the Pharaoh saw her as beautiful.
208%%* {{Tsundere}}
209* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Deconstructed, as the Pharaoh tried to make her into his concubine because of this.
210
211[[WMG:Ishmael]]
212->''His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.''
213
214* HeroOfAnotherStory: He is an important patriarch to the Muslims, just as Isaac is to Jews and Christians.
215* PutOnABus: Ishmael and his mother were banished from Abraham's household and, after a brief record about how God provided for them in the wilderness, are never heard from again.
216
217[[WMG:Isaac]]
218->''"Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of."''
219* BrickJoke: His name means "To laugh" because that's what his mother Sarah did when an angel told her she will be pregnant in her old age.
220* HumanSacrifice: Narrowly averted. God ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son, but stopped him in the last minute. Turns out it was a SecretTestOfCharacter.
221* KissingCousins, LoveAtFirstSight ''and'' PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: With his wife and cousin Rebecca.
222* OutOfFocus: Of the four patriarchs, he's by far the least focused on.
223* ParentalFavoritism: Abraham preferred him over his older brother, Ishmael. Granted, that was because God told him to. He in turn preferred Esau to Jacob
224* YoungestChildWins: Compared to Ishmael. By the time Abraham had other sons, Isaac's status as the winner was firmly established.
225
226[[WMG:Rebekah]]
227->''"Two nations fight in your womb. The lesser will defeat the greater, the older shall serve the younger."''
228
229* GuileHeroine: She does all the planning for Jacob to impersonate Esau.
230* ObnoxiousInLaws: Esau's Canaanite wives "vex" her.
231* ParentalFavoritism: Favored Jacob to the point of deceiving his father Isaac into giving him the better inheritance.
232%%* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: With Isaac
233* SacredHospitality: Offers Abraham's messenger a place to stay, plus water for himself ''and'' all his camels.
234
235[[WMG:Esau]]
236->''And he sold his birthright unto Jacob.''
237
238* CainAndAbel: The trope might just as well have been called Jacob and Esau. Esau sells his birthright to Jacob for some porridge, Jacob tricks Isaac into giving him Esau's blessing, Esau tries to kill Jacob, Jacob runs away and comes back with gifts for Esau. End result: Esau repents, makes up with Jacob, and accepts gifts from Jacob. The thing is, it's kind of hard to tell who is Abel and who is Cain in this scenario.
239* CarpetOfVirility: Esau was such a hairy man that when Jacob tricked Isaac (who had gone blind in his old age) into thinking he was Esau, he wore a goat skin to simulate Esau's hairiness.
240* EvilTwin: To Jacob. (Unlike most examples, he's not truly ''evil'', just short-sighted, and he and Jacob are PolarOppositeTwins. Played straight in Literature/TheTalmud, in which he becomes very evil indeed.)
241* FieryRedhead: One possible interpretation of "red and hairy" is that the ''hair'' was red. He's been portrayed as anything from hot-headed and impulsive to an outright homicidal maniac.
242* JacobAndEsau: One of the TropeNamers; he was the favorite of his father, while Jacob was the favorite of his mother.
243* KissingCousins: His third wife, Mahalath/Basemath, is the daughter of his uncle Ishmael.
244* ParentalMarriageVeto: Rebekah does ''not'' like the Canaanite women he married.
245* {{Polyamory}}: As many men of that time and place did, Esau was married to Adath, Basemath, and Oholibama, three local Canaanite women.[[note]]Some believe that Adath and Oholibama were the same woman renamed by Esau to curry favor with his mother, others believe they were separate entities.[[/note]]
246* SelfMadeMan: He is not TheChosenOne, but after the TimeSkip, he already has a lot of wealth and status to his name (almost as much as Jacob).
247
248[[WMG:Jacob/Israel]]
249->''Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.''
250* BrideAndSwitch: He was ''very'' irked when Laban gave him his eldest daughter Leah instead of Rachel, but only noticed that after consummating the marriage since Leah was wearing a thick veil.
251* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He fought God Himself[[note]]Never made clear who the stranger he wrestles with is. Some accounts say God himself, others an angel of God.[[/note]] and almost won, but God cheated by breaking his hip, after fighting him all day and all night. Jacob gained the nickname "Yisrael" which means "Struggles with God," or, the more popular translation, "Israel" means "Let God prevail" meaning he struggles with God and ''lets'' Him win.
252* DysfunctionJunction: Right in the middle of one. Also applies to his relatives on this list, but he's the one who has to deal with it from all sides.
253* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: Esau forgives him for stealing his birthright and welcomes Jacob and his family warmly.]]
254* GroinAttack: A particularly nasty variant by said sons: convince the rapist and his people to get circumcised, then slaughter them all while they're still in pain.
255* GuileHero: While he is generally considered a good guy and the father of the Hebrew people, he was also a crafty con man who managed to trick his eldest brother Esau out of his birthright and father's blessing, and after that went sour, he and his uncle Laban took [[GambitPileup turns conning each other]], with Jacob coming out ahead in the end. He gets it from his mother's side of the family.
256* JacobAndEsau: One of the TropeNamers; he was the favorite of his mother, while Esau was the favorite of his father.
257%%* LikeFatherLikeSon: Better said... Like mother, like son.
258* LoveAtFirstSight: Towards Rachel. He got it so bad he accepted to work fourteen years for Laban, as long as he was granted her hand in marriage. Technically, he promised to work seven years for Rachel, but after the above BrideAndSwitch, he was tricked into working seven ''more'' years.
259* ManipulativeBastard: Jacob's name means deceiver, and he is often shown using tricks to get his way. He even, at his mother's request, tricked his father into giving him the better inheritance.
260* ParentalFavoritism: Jacob was Rebecca's favorite, and later Jacob preferred his (second) youngest son, Joseph. Notice a pattern here?
261* {{Polyamory}}: With the sisters (and [[KissingCousins his cousins]]) Leah and Rachel. It wasn't his idea, though; he wanted Rachel but was stuck with Leah after the BrideAndSwitch. Like most other accounts of polygamy in the Bible, it ends badly, here in the form of an ugly SiblingRivalry.
262** He also took his wives' servants, Bilhah and Zilpah as concubines to have more children for his wives.
263* RapeAndRevenge: His sons, led by Simeon and Levi, brutally avenging their sister Dinah's rape. Jacob [[WhatTheHellHero disapproves]] and removes them from the line of succession.
264* RevengeIsNotJustice: Zigzagged. Jacob disowns his sons after they kill Shechem and all the men of Shechem to avenge their sister, Dinah, after she was raped. Jacob only sought to punish them by tricking them all into getting circumcisions and was more concerned about the repercussions brought by Simeon and Levi.
265%%* YamatoNadeshiko: In contrast to Esau.
266* YoungestChildWins: According to later books in Literature/TheBible, the nation who will produce the savior of mankind will bear his name while Esau's will vanish from the earth.
267
268[[WMG:Rachel]]
269->''Rachel was lovely in form and beautiful''
270* BeautyEqualsGoodness: She is described as more beautiful than her sister, who turns out to be, if not evil, then certainly angry and bitter.
271* DeathByChildbirth: Poor Benjamin...
272* GuileHeroine: Stole Laban's idols and hid them in her menstruation couch.
273* LawOfInverseFertility: She really, really wanted to bear Jacob sons, but contrasting with her sister Rachel (who conceived seven times) she only managed to fell pregnant twice, and she died the second time.
274* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted; her excuse for not getting up to let guards search was "It's that time of the month."
275* SiblingRivalry: With Leah, because Leah was able to give Jacob lots of sons.
276* YoungestChildWins: Jacob's favored wife bore his favorite sons, one of which becomes a Prince.
277
278[[WMG:Leah]]
279->''Leah had tender eyes''.
280* BrideAndSwitch: Laban had agreed to marry his younger daughter Rachel to Jacob, only to disguise Leah with a thick veil and give her to the other man instead.
281* DroppedABridgeOnHim: It wasn't until Jacob was in his death bed does the reader find out Leah had died before him.
282* LawOfInverseFertility: Conceives ''very'' easily, while her sister remains infertile for a long time.
283* SiblingRivalry: With Rachel, because Rachel was Jacob's favorite wife.
284* ThrowTheDogABone: Her husband wouldn't love her, so God blessed her with many children.
285* TheUnfavorite: Since it was Rachel Jacob always wanted, he was a bit put off with Leah, and the BrideAndSwitch probably didn't help. The narration outright tells Leah wasn't loved by her husband.
286* WhatBeautifulEyes: See quote. It contrasts with Rachel, who's entirely beautiful instead of having just a beautiful feature.
287
288[[WMG:Laban]]
289* ManipulativeBastard: Not only did he trick his nephew and son-in-law into marrying both of his daughters, but he went out of his way to keep Jacob working for him.
290* PureIsNotGood: His name means "White" so he is apparently without blemish or fault, yet he is a scheming bastard who used his own daughters to his advantage.
291* StealthPun: Keeps culling the sheep without speckles or spots from Jacob's herds, before Jacob turns the tables on him with primitive methods of breeding.
292
293[[WMG:Joseph, son of Jacob]]
294->''Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.''
295
296* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Not only does the 17-year-old Joseph tell tales about his brothers to his father, he openly announces his dreams about ruling over them all and flaunts his coat as much as possible.
297* BeautyEqualsGoodness: "Joseph was handsome in form and appearance." Additionally, according to Muslim tradition, "One half of all the beauty God apportioned for mankind went to Joseph; the other one half went to the rest of mankind."
298* BigBrotherInstinct: Joseph's reaction on seeing Benjamin for the first time in more than 20 years:
299-->God be gracious unto you, my son.
300* BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage: Joseph's marriage with Asenath seems to be an example of this. However, in view of Joseph's monogamy, the birth of his two sons, and the absence of any contrary statement in the Bible, it might also qualify as a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.
301* ChasteHero: Resisted the advances of his master Potiphar's wife.
302* ChickMagnet: {{Implied}} in the biblical episode involving Potiphar's wife. Dwelt on in much greater detail in the Quran.
303* CompletelyUnnecessaryTranslator: To conceal his true identity, Joseph uses an interpreter to speak to his brothers. This leads to a moment of BilingualBonus for Joseph, when the brothers' private conversation turns to what they did to him all those years ago.
304* DramaticIrony: The brothers insist before the Vizier of Egypt that they are "honest men". They don't realise that the man they are speaking to is the brother whose death they faked after having sold him into slavery 20 years ago.
305* DreamingOfThingsToCome: God gives this to several people including Joseph, though only Joseph has the gift of interpreting them.
306* EarnYourHappyEnding: Joseph's life story. He was first sold into slavery by his brothers, and later imprisoned over a FalseRapeAccusation. However, he manages to remain upright and faithful to God, and his faith eventually pays off after he is elevated by the Pharaoh to become the second most powerful man in Egypt.
307* TheGoodChancellor: He saves countless lives and livestock through his efficient administration during the seven years of famine. However, his economic policies result in the State gaining ownership over all privately owned property.
308* GuileHero: No matter where he is placed, Joseph finds a way to climb to the top of the organisation through sheer intelligence, charisma and competence. Also, see XanatosGambit below.
309* HypercompetentSidekick: To Potiphar, his warden in prison, and eventually to Pharaoh, to the point that Potiphar and the warden felt they didn't need to supervise him, and Potiphar even lost track of all his affairs because Joseph took care of them all.
310* MadeASlave: His brothers sold him into slavery.
311* NotSoStoic: Despite his cold and calculating treatment of his brothers, Joseph [[ManlyTears loses his composure]] several times in private. That's before his rather public [[InelegantBlubbering outburst]] and self-revelation following Judah's RousingSpeech.
312* ParentalFavoritism: He was the favorite son of Jacob, being the first child of his favorite wife. It's encouraging to note that Joseph himself systematically [[{{Averted}} averts]] this trope in relation to the upbringing of his own two children, Manasseh and Ephraim. He is even somewhat disapproving of Jacob when Jacob resorts to his old habit of [[YoungestChildWins favouring the younger child]] by giving the greater blessing to Ephraim.
313* RagsToRiches: Eventually became second to Pharaoh in power, sometimes described as being a prince. (Not the same Pharaoh who enslaved the Israelites.)
314* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: ZigZagged with. As the Vizier of Egypt, Joseph acts like TheGoodChancellor and is ultimately praised by the people for saving their lives. However, when dealing with his brothers (before having revealed his true identity), Joseph takes full advantage of his power and makes them suffer for what they did to him.
315* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: A small-scale version: the fancy robe Jacob gave him is believed to traditionally signify a father's choice of successor as head of the family. He got the real deal when Pharaoh made him second-in-command of all Egypt.
316* SecretTestOfCharacter: Joseph's rough treatment of his brothers was also to see if they'd changed since the day they sold him into Egypt.
317* XanatosGambit: Precisely what Joseph had in mind during the above-mentioned cat-and-mouse game is up for debate. However, it would most likely have been something like this: '''Plan A''': (1) Joseph's brothers bring Benjamin to Egypt to buy more corn. (2) Joseph accuses Benjamin of stealing his cup and demands him as a slave. (3) The brothers, having learnt nothing from the past, agree to leave Benjamin with Joseph and go back to Canaan. (4) Joseph and Benjamin live happily ever after in Egypt. '''Plan B''': (1)-(2) are the same as before. (3) The brothers, wiser with experience, refuse to part with Benjamin, thereby indicating to Joseph that they have overcome their hatred for Rachel's sons and are ready for reconciliation. (4) Joseph reconciles with his entire family and they ALL live happily ever after in Egypt. Fortunately, it was Plan B which succeeded.
318* YoungestChildWins: Naturally, in keeping with several generations of family tradition.
319
320[[WMG:Judah]]
321* BedTrick: Subject to Tamar's.
322* HeroOfAnotherStory: In the long-run, it's Judah's descendants[[labelnote:*]]Such as King David[[/labelnote]] who become the most illustrious. During his lifetime, his brother Joseph is TheHero.
323* HeroicSacrifice: Offers himself as a slave to Joseph to save Benjamin.
324* {{Hypocrite}}: [[{{Jerkass}} Is willing to put Tamar to death for adultery despite having slept with some random prostitute himself.]] Upon realizing that ''she'' was the prostitute, he [[WhatHaveIDone realizes his error]].
325* JailBaitWait: Invokes this to Tamar when he tells her to live as a widow in her father's house until his third son, Shelah is old enough. However, he still refuses to let them marry after Shelah comes of age.
326* MadeASlave: He was the one to suggest selling Joseph into slavery. Also see HeroicSacrifice.
327* RousingSpeech: Judah's famous monologue in Chapter 44 proves to be the catalyst to the family's reconciliation, causing Joseph to break down in ManlyTears.
328* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He outlived his first two sons.
329* SexForSolace: Probably why he slept with a prostitute (Tamar in disguise) after his wife's death.
330* TokenGoodTeammate - He was the one who suggested selling Joseph to slavery instead of killing him.
331%%* WhatHaveIDone: He almost had Tamar put to death for adultery before realizing that he was the one at fault.
332
333[[WMG:Tamar (daughter-in-law of Judah)]]
334* BedTrick: Tricked Judah into sleeping with her by disguising herself as a prostitute.
335* CartwrightCurse: She married Judah's first son, who died. Then she married Judah's second son, who practiced coitus interruptus and was killed by God as punishment. This is why Judah keeps his third son away from her.
336* GuileHero: Tamar turns the odds in her favor despite being a neglected, powerless widow trying to get a fair deal from the head of the family in a patriarchal society.
337* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Briefly. She impersonates a hooker as part of a ploy to get her stingy father-in-law to do as he'd agreed and provide her with a new husband.
338* YoungestChildWins: Her younger son took his brother's place as first-born as they were being born.
339
340[[WMG:Reuben]]
341* BilingualBackfire: Reuben and his brothers recall their betrayal of Joseph in front of the Vizier of Egypt, who doesn't speak Canaanite, [[CompletelyUnnecessaryTranslator or so they think]].
342* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Poor Reuben, through and through. A prime example of this trope is when Reuben tries to persuade Jacob to let Benjamin travel with him to Egypt. As an indication of his sincerity, he tells Jacob he will kill both his own sons if he can't bring Benjamin back. Jacob isn't persuaded.
343
344[[WMG:Pharaoh (Genesis)]]
345* DreamingOfThingsToCome: God gave him two prophetic dreams that Joseph interpreted.
346* NoNameGiven: His real name is never given. Pharaoh is a title.
347* OneSteveLimit: Averted, there are other Pharaohs mentioned. In fact, it's likely that Joseph served under multiple Pharaohs.
348* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He was willing to accommodate Joseph's relatives in Goshen, a particularly fertile area of Egypt where they would be able to graze their flocks (and also where they would be separate from the Egyptian populace, as Egyptians tended to look down on shepherds).
349
350[[WMG:Moses]]
351->''"Let my people go!"''
352* BackFromTheDead: While this would normally not apply to someone for whom they NeverFoundTheBody, he shows up again over 1000 years later in the New Testament as a spirit.
353* BeyondTheImpossible: He writes about his own death.
354* CueTheSun: God prolongs the day in one battle for as long as Moses held up his arms. He got people to help him hold them up.
355%%* ChekhovsGun: The Staff[=/=]Snake miracle.
356* DyingAlone: They NeverFoundTheBody. [[spoiler:The book of Jude in the New Testament expands on this.]]
357* GenocideBackfire: Moses repays the Pharaoh's attempts to kill his people by closing the Red Sea on his entire army.
358* LaserGuidedKarma: When Moses irresponsibly smashed a rock in the desert with his staff to make water appear, God caused him to die in the desert (over 40 years late).
359* MalignedMixedMarriage: Given the area she came from, Its very likely that one of his wives was black. In any case, Miriam and Aaron where not happy about him marrying her, and spoke against him until God got angry at them and rebuked them. Some interpretations argue that they were actually mad that he'd ''separated'' from his wife.
360* MosesArchetype: TropeMaker and {{Trope Namer|s}}.
361* MosesInTheBulrushes: The {{Trope Namer|s}}. Ironically, he is not a perfect fit for this trope as in the actual text he knew he was an Israelite. The [[WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt movie]] changed it because of the RuleOfDrama.
362* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When the Israelites were complaining about a lack of water, God told Moses to speak to a stone to get a spring to appear, but Moses smacked it with his staff instead. As punishment for not following God's directions exactly, he was not allowed to enter the promised land.
363* ShiksaGoddess: His wife's Ethiopian, he is Jewish.
364* UnstoppableRage: Got quite angry when he came back to find some of the Israelites worshiping a golden calf. Understandable. The text ambiguously implies they were having a orgy.
365* UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking: He had a speech impediment, so his brother Aaron did the talking for him. This is subverted in Deuteronomy which shows how much he's changed. The whole book is Moses' eloquent last instructions to Israel before his death.
366
367[[WMG:Aaron]]
368* KarmaHoudini: Aaron created the Golden Calf, and not only is he not punished for idolatry, ''he becomes the HighPriest!'' And only his descendants can be priests of the Israelites. Some interpretations try to soften this by saying the people forced him to make the calf, but he still gets off without a punishment (unless you consider some of his sons being smote by God, but that was for their own actions). Later on, Aaron and Miriam complained to God about Moses, but only Miriam was punished with a skin disease.
369* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Often portrayed as a nicer person than his brother, especially in the Talmud, where he micromanages Israelite home life. His death is also given a lot more solemnity than Moses'.
370* SerpentStaff: God transforms Aaron's rod into a snake to display His power to the Pharaoh. Pharaoh is unimpressed and simply has his own magicians do the same with their staffs. Aaron's snake one-ups them by eating the magicians' snakes.
371* TooDumbToLive: After he had seen irrefutable evidence of God, he breaks one of the first commands He gave him: not to make any idols. Granted, he was being pressured, but it's still kinda stupid.
372
373[[WMG:Miriam]]
374->''And Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, proceeded to take a tambourine in her hand; and all the women began going out with her with tambourines and in dances.''
375* {{Jerkass}}: Temporarily; She didn't like Moses's new wife and roped Aaron into helping her speak out against her. God didn't like that very much.
376* SickEpisode: Punishment for her insolence; she got better.
377
378[[WMG:Pharaoh (Exodus)]]
379->''Then the LORD said to Moses, “You shall soon see what I will do to Pharaoh: he shall let them go because of a greater might; indeed, because of a greater might he shall drive them from his land.”''
380* DeathOfAChild: He sent men to kill the Israelites kids. His own son died later.
381* {{Determinator}}: He was stubborn even before God[[note]]or the idea of God's superiority to him[[/note]] started hardening his heart.
382* IgnoredEpiphany: He admitted that "this time I have sinned", that his people were wrong and God is right, told Moses that he could go, then, right after Pharaoh saw that the hail and rain were gone and everything was fine and dandy again, Pharaoh "hardened" his own heart and refused to let the Israelites go.
383* InfanticideBackfire: One of the infants they tried to kill survived, and this ultimately resulted in the Israelites being freed and the death of Pharaoh.
384* {{Jerkass}}: To the Jews. He wouldn't release them from slavery when God commanded him to do so.
385* KillItWithWater:
386** Orders the first born sons of the Israelites to be thrown into the Nile river.
387** He himself dies when the water of the Red Sea rushes back into place.
388* LaserGuidedKarma: Send men to drown the infants of the people you enslaved? Your own people's children will die, including your own son, and your armies (possibly including you) will drown.
389* NayTheist: He acknowledged the existence of God. He even went so far as to admits that he sinned, but he still refused to do what God said and let His people go.
390* NiceJobBreakingItHerod: Attempted unsuccessfully to kill the prophesied savior by killing all male Hebrew babies. Ended unknowingly raising the child himself.
391* NoNameGiven: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaohs_in_the_Hebrew_Bible#Pharaoh_of_the_Exodus His real name is never given]], as Pharaoh is just a title.
392* OneSteveLimit: Averted, as there are other Pharaohs mentioned.
393* {{Pride}}: His refusal to humble himself before God cost him quite dearly, any way you slice it.
394* RageAgainstTheHeavens: He fought against God by refusing to let His people go, even after he saw proof that He exists.
395
396[[WMG:Joshua]]
397->''And Israel served the Lord throughout Joshua's lifetime.''
398* BlindIdiotTranslation: The translation directed by King James the 1st of England confuses him with Jesus at a few points. Helps that they [[SignificantNameOverlap share a name]], albeit under different naming conventions.
399* CueTheSun: "And that day was unlike any other before or since, when God listened to a man" - Joshua 10:14
400* {{Curse}}: He foretold that whoever rebuilds Jericho will lose both his sons in the process and this came true during the time of Ahab.
401* HeroicBSOD: When the attack on the city of Ai failed followed by God telling him [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Get up! Why are you down on your face?]].
402
403[[WMG:Rahab]]
404* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: She saves the Israeli spies from being killed.
405* LesCollaborateurs: A rare ''heroic'' example.
406%%* SixthRangerTraitor
407
408[[WMG:Balaam]]
409->''"How can I curse those whom God had not?"''
410* CruellaToAnimals: Started beating his donkey when she refused to move.
411* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He is later found to have been killed in an Israelite raid.
412%%* {{Hypocrite}}
413%%* {{Greed}}
414* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He is later found guilty of encouraging Israel's enemies to seduce it into performing pagan worship.
415* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Does not even ''flinch'' when his donkey starts talking to him out for nowhere.
416* WhatTheHellHero: Balaam got this from a ''donkey''. [[InvertedTrope Though Balaam was not really a]] '''[[InvertedTrope hero]]'''.
417
418[[WMG:Balaam's Donkey]]
419->''Then the LORD opened the donkey's mouth, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?"''
420* EvilDetectingDog: The donkey was able to see the angel. Balaam could not until the angel revealed himself. (This was not a GlamourFailure, as it was very likely intentional.)
421* StubbornMule: This is probably what Balaam thought, but in reality the Donkey refused to move because she saw an angel.
422* TalkingAnimal: It was due to a miracle, but it is not clear whether this literally happened or was a vision of some sort.
423
424[[WMG:Deborah]]
425->''"And I rose a mother in Israel"''.
426* ActionGirl: She got her job as judge/ruler by acting when the men would not.
427* AnimalThemeNaming: Her name means bee.
428* BrainsAndBrawn: Deborah is the brains to Barak's Brawn; Without her at his side guiding him every step of the way, he wouldn't have gone to war.
429* IronLady: She was nearly unstoppable in battle
430* LadyOfWar: Again, how she got her job. So inspirational that her appointed military leader didn't think he could win the impending battle without her.
431* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Certainly not intentional, but she IS the only female Judge.
432* TeamMom: See the quote. She's the team mom for the entire Jewish nation.
433* WarriorPoet: Her and Barak celebrate the victory over Sisera and his army by breaking into song.
434
435[[WMG:Yael]]
436->''"Come and I shall show you the man you are looking for"''
437* GuileHeroine: Lures an enemy general into her tent, lulls him to sleep, and stabs him in the head with a tent peg. This is one of the few times when ''breaking SacredHospitality'' is presented as the heroic thing to do; the guy was THAT dangerous.
438* ImprobableWeaponUser: Killed the enemy general Sisera using a mallet and a tent peg.
439* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Tricks Sisera into trusting her, lulls him to sleep with warm milk, and then brutally drives a tent stake through his temples.
440* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Jael or Yael[[note]]They are alternate transliterations and are pronounced the same[[/note]]?
441
442[[WMG:Barak]]
443->''"If you will go with me, I also shall certainly go; but if you will not go with me, I shall not go."''
444%%* BrainsAndBrawn
445* CowardlyLion: Fears going to war without God's prophetess at his side
446* TheAragorn: Takes second string to Deborah, but wins the battle.
447* WarriorPoet: Sings with Deborah after the battle.
448
449[[WMG:Gideon]]
450->''"If You really intend to deliver Israel through me as You have said— here I place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor..."''
451* OfferedTheCrown: After the big battle he won with only 300 men.
452* RefusalOfTheCall: Initially was skeptical and wanted God to prove He is who He says he is by "putting out a fleece".
453* ShamingTheMob: Gideon's father saved him when he destroyed an altar to Baal.
454* ThinkNothingOfIt: Refuses to be king.
455
456[[WMG:Abimelech]]
457* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Tried to get his armor bearer to stab him so no one would know he was fatally wounded by a woman who dropped a rock on him.
458* EvilPrince: Fancied himself as Israel's first king, although God says otherwise.
459
460[[WMG:Jephthah]]
461* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Led a band of outlaws.
462* SonOfAWhore: He was kicked out of town for it.
463* TheUnfavorite: Being the son of a prostitute, his step-mother didn't like him.
464
465[[WMG:Samson]]
466->''"From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: For I will do you evils.''
467* AchillesHeel: His hair. If his head is ever shaved, he loses his strength. This is perhaps a case of divine irony since not getting a haircut is the only Nazirite vow Samson has kept, the other two being not drinking and not touching a dead thing. [[FridgeBrilliance He lost his strength not because he cut his hair but because he disobeyed God for the last time. He was also drunk when his hair was cut.]]
468* BadassIsraeli: He is ''the'' strongman of Jewish myth.
469* BondOneLiner: Upon killing one thousand men with a Donkey's jawbone, he made a pun on the fact that "donkey" and "heap" are homophones in Hebrew. Methods of translating this wordplay vary.
470-->''"With the jawbone of an ass, I have piled them in a mass"\
471'''or'''\
472"With a donkey’s jawbone, I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone, I have killed a thousand men"''
473* CherryTapping: 1,000 kill count... with a jawbone of an donkey.
474* DisproportionateRetribution: A few times. When he finds out his bride-to-be gave the answer to his riddle, he decides to honor his side of the bet by robbing and killing 30 people for their wardrobes. Later on, when he finds out his fiance's father gave her away to someone else, he decides to set fire to the Philistines' crops using foxes with torches tied to their tails. Then finally, at the end of the story, he gets revenge for his eyes by knocking down a Philistine temple, killing 3000 Philistines.
475* DrivenToSuicide: And God helps him with his suicide.
476* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: Got a haircut out of it.
477* EyeScream: The Philistines stab out his eyes.
478* FakeWeakness: He made up several of these to tell Delilah, after she asked the secret of his strength. Somehow he never figured out why, whenever he told her one, some Philistines would always try to use it on him...
479* FatalFlaw:
480** See LoveMakesYouDumb.
481** And his drunkenness, which God told him to avoid, gave Delilah the chance to cut his hair.
482* GoodFlawsBadFlaws: Despite his faults, the letter to the Hebrews still cite him a great hero for his faith in God, largely due to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath how he repents]].
483* HandicappedBadass: He is blinded by his enemies after being {{depower}}ed, but he later kills them all for it.
484* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Gave this treatment to a random lion with his bare hands.
485* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: It seems like he was one, considering he ended up having ''two'' traitorous wives...
486* HotBlooded: A WorldsStrongestMan who killed a ''thousand'' Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. After a deadly HumiliationConga that involved a certain [[TheVamp seductress]], a TraumaticHaircut ''and'' EyeScream, [[TakingYouWithMe took down thousands more]] with him by breaking the pillars of a temple.
487* HumiliationConga: When the Philistines captured him, they blinded him, imprisoned him, and put him work grinding grain. They then [[ComeToGawk brought him out to mock him]], and have him perform for them. He gets the last laugh, though.
488* ImprobableWeaponUser: His signature weapon was a donkey's jawbone.
489* LoveMakesYouDumb: Delilah, you manipulative bitch, we read your book!
490* MacGuffin: His hair. If his head is ever shaved, he loses his strength. This is perhaps a case of divine irony since not getting a haircut is the only Nazirite vow Samson has kept, the other two being not drinking and not touching a dead thing. He lost his strength not because he cut his hair but because he disobeyed God for the last time. He was also drunk when his hair was cut.
491* MessianicArchetype: The subversion of the type. His birth is announced by an angel and raised a Nazirite (puritan Hebrew) yet broke its traditions simply because he was the ChosenOne, his battles are more like the antics of a super powered college prankster and his motivation to finally beat the Philistines was personal revenge.
492* NinetiesAntiHero: Well, he sure wasn't TheCape.
493* OneManArmy: Takes on ''one thousand Philistines'' with nothing but the jawbone of an ass, and wins handily.
494* PersonOfMassDestruction: Kinda. He did smash the two pillars of the Philistine temple, killing over 3000.
495* RedemptionEqualsDeath: After a HumiliationConga with having his hair shaved off and losing his strength, his eyes are gouged out and he finds himself on the chain gang, working the grain grinder. During this time, his hair grows back and he recovers his strength. When the Philistines are having a victory party, an older and wiser Samson asks a youth to prop him up against the pillars of the temple of Dagon in Gaza, and he prays that God will strengthen him one last time as he pushes against the pillars of Dagon's temple, which collapses and kills Samson along with the Philistines of Gaza
496* RedHerring: Delilah tries to find the reason for Samson's strength by asking him. He is less than helpful at first.
497* SweetTooth: After killing the lion and coming back some time later, he finds a swarm of honeybees making a hive in its carcass. [[{{Squick}} He eats some honey right out of the corpse and shares the rest with his parents]] without telling them where he got it.
498* StellarName: His name means "Sun".
499* SuperStrength: The Jewish Archetype, with his greatest display being demolishing the temple where he was held prisoner by ''pulling the pillars down''.
500* TakingYouWithMe: He prays to God to give him strength one last time and collapses the temple with all the rulers of the Philistines inside, and three thousand of their people on the roof.
501-->''Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.'' (Judges 16:30)
502* TooDumbToLive: He eventually gives in to Delilah and tells her the secret of his strength, leading to his capture by the Philistines.
503* TouchedByVorlons: The reason for Samson's SuperStrength.
504* TraumaticHaircut: Having his hair shaved took away all of his strength. It manages to grow back just in time for Samson to perform his last act.
505* WeaksauceWeakness: Everyone knows about his hair being his AchillesHeel.
506* XanatosGambit: God blessing Samson was all part of the plan.
507
508[[WMG:Delilah]]
509* FemmeFatale: Handily seduces Samson into revealing the truth about the source of his strength.
510* TheVamp: The classic case. She both pesters Samson and also uses her feminine charms and Samson's love for her to get him to reveal his secret to her and sleep on her lap. She then gets a servant to cut his hair while he sleeps. She hands him over to the Philistines in exchange for silver. Some niche modern interpetations add a bit of Dominatrix and TheBaroness, with her possibly being a Philistine herself and, through Samson's teasing, ties him up not once but twice. "So Delilah said to Samson, 'Please tell me where your great strength lies, and [a]how you can be bound to humble you.'"
511
512[[WMG:The other Judges (Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Tola, Jair, Ibzan, Elon and Abdon)]]
513* ChosenOne: God picked them personally.
514* ImprobableWeaponUser: Shamgar's weapon was an ox goad.
515* PreMortemOneLiner: Ehud. "I have a message from God for you".
516* UndignifiedDeath: Ehud kills the Moabite king Eglon by stabbing him in the gut. The narrative mentions that "dirt came out" of the wound, possibly in reference to the contents of his bowels, and Ehud slipped out of the room while the king's guards waited outside, assuming from the smell that Eglon was relieving himself. On top of that, Eglon is described as [[AdiposeRex fat enough]] that his flab prevented Ehud from retrieving his sword.
517
518[[WMG:Ruth]]
519->''"For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God."''
520* ChekhovsGunman: It's only at the end of her story do we find out her significance, she's David's great grandmother.
521* MayDecemberRomance: Boaz was much older than her, and he even says so openly.
522* OutOfGenreExperience: Her story which reads like a domestic drama, is set during the action packed CrapsackWorld of Judges.
523* PluckyGirl: Ruth has no husband, children, or strong protectors. Yet she does her best to scratch out a living for herself and her mother-in-law, and her loyalty ultimately pays off.
524* ReadyForLovemaking: After Boaz had fallen asleep on a grain heap, Ruth uncovered his feet, lied down, and waited for him to wake up with cold feet. This being ancient Israel though, consummation did have to wait until after the wedding.
525* UndyingLoyalty: Despite having the option to stay in Moab, Ruth has the loyalty of a daughter to her mother-in-law, Naomi and vows not to leave her. Her famous speech provides the page quote.
526%%* YamatoNadeshiko
527
528[[WMG:Eli]]
529* {{Curse}}: Through the wickedness of his sons, Eli lost favor with God and it was prophesied that all men in his family will be ruined. The priests of Nob, most were his relatives, were killed by Saul and his youngest son Abiathar, David's high priest, was exiled by Solomon for supporting a rival to the throne.
530* DeathByFallingOver: After hearing of his sons' death, he fell from his chair and broke his neck. To be fair, he ''was'' already very old.
531
532[[WMG:Samuel]]
533->''The Lord called Samuel: and he answered, "Here am I".''
534* LastOfHisKind: The last of The Judges.
535* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Saul after the latter only partially obeys the divine command to utterly wipe out the Amalekites (which included their finest animals, which Saul spared).
536%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
537* WaifProphet: started as one, when he was a child. It was the promise his mother made with God in exchange for his existence that he would spend his life in God's servitude.
538
539[[WMG:Saul]]
540->''"For rejecting The Lord's command, He has rejected you as king!"''
541* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: He [[DrivenToSuicide fell on his own sword,]] because he did not want his enemies to abuse and mock him.
542* BeautyIsBad: He is described as being a beautiful king.
543* FallenHero: He was good at first before he became a wicked king.
544* IgnoredEpiphany: Admitted that he had treated David evilly and that David had been good to him, but he went right back to trying to kill him.
545* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He didn't take kindly to the fact that God was going to replace him.
546* GreenEyedMonster: Was mortally jealous of David.
547* {{Hypocrite}}: Had all magic users purged but went to a witch to summon the spirit of Samuel for advice on his what would turn out to be his final battle.
548* LargeAndInCharge: He was noticeably taller than all the other people around.
549* OfferedTheCrown: They don't call him King Saul for nothing.
550* TheUriahGambit: Used it on David before David [[TropeNamers named it]].
551
552[[WMG:Jonathan]]
553->''"Your love was greater than that of a woman's!"''
554* ConflictingLoyalty: Was caught between his insane father's paranoia and his loyalty to his best friend David.
555* HeterosexualLifePartners: With David. See above quote from 2 Samuel. More likely the text was referring to the [[TrueCompanions close bond of friendship]] between the two, but still. [[http://inspiredcreativity.deviantart.com/art/Old-Testament-Homosexuality-155369784?q=boost%3Apopular%20new%20testament%20homosexuality&qo=1 This essay clarifies the subject.]]
556* NiceGuy: Unlike his father, Jonathan was a good man who doesn't have a bad bone in his body.
557
558[[WMG:David]]
559->''And David danced before the Lord with all his might.''
560* TwentyBearAsses: Although he only needed to bring back 100 Philistine foreskins.
561* AntagonistInMourning:
562** David's the ''pro''tagonist, but when his opponent Saul dies he still goes further than most in mourning a man bent on killing him.
563** He wept hard for Absalom too. It's understandable though, as he was his son.
564* TheAtoner:
565** Fasts and prays following God's judgment on him for his adultery and subsequent [[TheUriahGambit Uriah Gambit]] to cover it up; as a result, his life and kingdom are spared but he and Bathsheba lose their first, newborn child and the rest of David's family life is extremely troubled.
566** Also many passages within the Psalms attributed to him are quite repentant.
567* BadassIsraeli: The original. The "Star of David" is the frame of his shield.
568* {{BFS}}: Wielded the sword of Goliath.
569* BreakTheCutie: In his last days, he is described as "no longer feeling warmth". A stark contrast to the happy well-adjusted shepherd boy he once was.
570* CurbStompBattle: Brought a gun to a swordfight (metaphorically), then cut Goliath's head off with Goliath's own sword.
571* DavidVersusGoliath: The TropeMaker. He was just a small shepherd boy and managed to knock out the absolutely huge Goliath with just a slingshot, allowing him to land the killing blow with Goliath’s own sword.
572* EvenTheGuysWantHim: He had several wives (Michal and Bathsheba being just two of them) as well as HoYay with Jonathan.
573* HeroicBSOD:
574** What he suffers when told that Jonathan and Saul kicked it. Self-inflicted ClothingDamage included.
575** He gets another one after the death of Abasalom followed by a WhatTheHellHeroSpeech from one of his generals for mourning his enemy and hating the men who fought for him.
576* HumbleHero: He admits his wrongdoings and he recognizes his human frailty.
577* IntimateHealing: When David was old, he could not get warm, so they got a young girl (possibly one of his wives) to care for him, which included snuggling up besides him. Oddly, [[NotWhatItLooksLike their relationship was not sexual.]]
578* KickTheDog:
579** His infamous [[TheUriahGambit gambit with Uriah]], where he sent Uriah on the frontlines of the battlefield to perish in battle so that he could marry Batsheba.
580** Not punishing Amnon for raping his half-sister Tamar. Some texts say he didn't because he was the [[ParentalFavoritism firstborn.]]
581* ManlyTears: He was a formidable warrior who cried quite a lot.
582* MurderTheHypotenuse: The hypotenuse being poor Uriah.
583* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Very narrowly averted; The only thing that stopped David from wiping out Nabal's entire house when he insulted him was quick thinking on Abigail's part. David snaps out of it and [[{{Lampshade}} thanks God]] that he was prevented from having such blood guilt on his hands.
584%%* MyGreatestFailure: The whole Bathsheba incident.
585* ObfuscatingInsanity: Did this while in exile before he was crowned king, when the [[OhCrap King of Gath]] ([[DavidVersusGoliath Goliath]]'s hometown) recognized him as an anti-Philistine guerrilla warrior.
586* OfferedTheCrown: Again, he's ''King'' David.
587* {{Polyamory}}: Michal and Bathsheba were just the start; he had eight total plus concubines.
588* ThePurge: Killed all the men in Saul's family (except Jonathan's son) eligible for succession and forced Saul's daughter Michal to marry him again to force an alliance with the former royal family. His last wishes (textually, if not chronologically) were for Solomon were to kill Joab and Shimei, steward of the house of Saul.
589* PreAsskickingOneLiner: 1 Samuel, 17:46. "This day the Lord will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you...!".
590* PrettyBoy: "And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair countenance."
591* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: His "Mighty Men" who were mercenaries and outlaws who joined him during his years as a fugitive.
592* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: David had the men who killed Ishbal (Saul's heir apparent) executed.
593* RightfulKingReturns: Part of the conditions for the Jewish Messiah is being of his bloodline. Given David is estimated to have lived 3000 years ago, had something like 18 wives and concubines, and one of his sons had somewhere around 1000, that's [[SingleLineOfDescent a good chunk of the population, or no-one at all]].
594* SealedOrders: When King David slept with the wife of Uriah, David eventually murdered him through this method: he sent sealed orders through Uriah to the general, which instructed the army to pull back and let Uriah die in the heat of the battle.
595* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: David had a young girl as a ward in his old age who everyone thought was a concubine. One of his sons even asked to marry her, perhaps to subtly lay a claim to the throne. David always denied any claims of her being more than his nurse of sorts.
596* SufferTheSlings: Goliath found out the hard way just how deadly they can be.
597%%* TropeNamers: With Goliath.
598* TheUriahGambit: {{Trope Namer|s}}, though Saul tried to pull it on him first with the Philistine Foreskins bit.
599* WarriorPoet: Kicks ass, writes poems, dances with his people. He's even got a nickname, "The Sweet Psalmist of Israel"
600* WhatTheHellHero: After the above incident with Uriah, Nathan explicitly call him on this. He repents, but it's too late, at least for his first child with Bathsheba.
601* YoungestChildWins: Youngest of 8, and that's just the brothers. He became king of Israel.
602
603[[WMG:Abigail, Wife of David]]
604->''When Abigail caught sight of David, she at once hastened and got down off the ass and fell upon her face before David and bowed to the earth. She then fell at his feet and said: “Upon me myself, O my lord, be the error; and, please, let your slave girl speak in your ears"''
605%%* BeautyEqualsGoodness
606* GuileHeroine: One of David's followers who mediated between the King and her JerkAss first husband rather skillfully and later was one of David's wives
607%%* HumbleHero
608* ShamingTheMob: After her husband Nabal insulted David, David led a couple hundred men back to him, intending to wipe out his entire household. Abigail placates him with gifts of food and a heartfelt speech.
609* UglyGuyHotWife:
610** Nabal, Abigail's first husband, is certainly ugly... at least in personality, though Abigail's beauty is specifically stated.
611** Averted with her second husband David. He was quite handsome.
612%%* YamatoNadeshiko
613
614[[WMG:Nabal]]
615->''"Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Servants have been leaving their masters more and more these days."''
616%%* TheAlcoholic
617%%* DeadpanSnarker
618%%* DeathOfTheHypotenuse
619%%* JerkAss
620* MeaningfulName: "The Fool". According to Abigail, it fit him.
621* TooDumbToLive: Yes, Nabal, insult the man who went out of his way to protect your flocks and shepherds and only wants a bite of food in return, ''and'' who's got armed men accompanying him. [[SarcasmMode That'll win you his respect.]]
622%%* VillainousBSOD
623
624[[WMG:Goliath]]
625->''"Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?"''
626* BoomHeadshot: The stone launched by David's sling is noted to sink into his forehead. It's not made clear whether it killed him or just stunned him, but David decapitates him to makes sure.
627* TheBrute: Probably the most triumphant example of this trope. He's a [[GiantMook giant]] BoisterousBruiser who serves as the champion of the Philistines when they go to war with Israel.
628* CurbStompBattle: Delivered by the much smaller David.
629* DavidVersusGoliath: The second TropeMaker. He underestimated the younger and smaller David, which lead to him losing his life.
630* GiantMook: was stated to be around 10 feet -- tall even by modern standards.
631* GlassCannon: It only took one shot from a sling[[note]]and cutting off his head while he was stunned[[/note]] to kill him.
632* HalfHumanHybrid: Depending on how you interpret a passage in Genesis, he may or may not be half angel/demon.
633
634[[WMG:Absalom]]
635->''"If I had only been a judge, then this land would have justice"''.
636* AssholeVictim: Both perpetrator and victim in this trope.
637* EvilPrince: Was one of David's sons and tried to overthrow him.
638* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Avenged his sister's rape by killing his half-brother then goes off to plot against David's rule.
639* RapeAndRevenge: Killed his half-brother, Amnon, who had raped his sister Tamar.
640* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Described as "the most handsome man in the kingdom" with long hair to boot. This led to his death at the hands of Joab and his army.
641* SixthRangerTraitor: Not him, but one of David's advisers who [[VillainsNeverLie said he would "serve you as I served your father"]].
642* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He got quite a following in trying to usurp his father's role.
643
644[[WMG:Tamar, princess of Israel]]
645->''And she lived in her brother Absalom's house, a desolate woman.''
646* BrotherSisterIncest: Though not by choice, as she was ''raped'' after all.
647* RapeAndRevenge: Absalom killed Amnon for raping her.
648* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: Wore one as a mark of her chastity. She tore it apart after the rape.
649
650[[WMG:Joab]]
651* BloodKnight: Among David's inner circle, he's always the first to advocate violence against whoever is threatening them.
652* TokenEvilTeammate: Though ostensibly commander of David's army, Joab was doing evil things like disobeying David to kill David's son Absalom (who'd just staged a failed coup) and his intended replacement Amasa. Unlike many examples of the type, he does get killed for it once he outlives his usefulness (and supports a rival of the legitimate heir to the throne).
653* YouKilledMyFather: His reason for killing Abner is the murder of his brother.
654
655[[WMG:Uriah]]
656* CelibateHero: He refused to have sex with his wife while a war was going on, despite royal orders.
657* UriahGambit: The {{Trope Namer|s}}. Once it became impossible to pass off Bathsheba's unborn child as his, David sent him back to the front with SealedOrders to have him abandoned to die in battle.
658
659[[WMG:Bathsheba]]
660* NakedFirstImpression: David first saw her when she was taking her clothes off to take a bath.
661* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: David believes this of her.
662
663[[WMG:Solomon]]
664->''"Consider the lilies of the field. Not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed as well as these".''
665* AuthorFilibuster: Ecclesiastes. The topic, "Life Sucks".
666* TheCasanova: He had [[ExaggeratedTrope seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines]], which is more than anyone else in the Bible - and if you read closely, those are just the ''foreign'' women. Also if you read the Song of Songs of Solomon, you can see that he sure knows how to sweet talk women
667* ElementalPowers: According to Islamic tradition.
668* FallenHero: Turned to idol worship in his old age, and had extremely acquisitive tendencies even before that, signified by his massive numbers of imported horses (specifically warned against in Deuteronomy).
669* ILied: Nobody seriously believes he was going to cut a baby in half...
670* ImprobableInfantSurvival: See the Third Option below.
671%%* JudgmentOfSolomon: {{Trope Namer|s}}.
672* LonelyAtTheTop: According to Ecclesiastes, not even the wisdom he asked from God had made him happy.
673* {{Polyamory}}: Again, he had a ''thousand'' women. [[LoveRuinsTheRealm Who led him to worship pagan gods, leading to the kingdom of Israel fracturing.]]
674* ThePurge: Appointed as the next king and secured it by killing all his rivals including his brother and David's general Joab.
675* ShiksaGoddess: Married a thousand of them, the most notable being [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Pharaoh's daughter]] and Rehoboam's mother Naamah the Ammonite - perhaps the Queen of Sheba as well.
676* SketchySuccessor: His son Rehoboam, upon becoming king, promptly takes the IdiotBall and spikes it in the endzone.
677* TheSmartGuy: Due to God giving him a great amount of wisdom. There was a reason why he was consulted for miles around for answers to problems.
678* TakeAThirdOption: Two woman came up to him with a baby, one of the woman had accidentally smothered her own child in her sleep, and swapped it with the other woman's baby. Now both claim to be the mother of the surviving child. How does Solomon decide which woman should get the baby? He orders it to be ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe split in half]], with each woman getting one half.'' One woman, bizarrely, [[CrazyEnoughToWork is perfectly okay with this]], the other begs him to give the baby to the other woman. He gives it to the woman who actually cared about the baby. [[SecretTestofCharacter It was his plan all along, he never intended to actually cut the baby in two.]]
679* YoungestChildWins: Youngest of 7, but the first surviving son of his father's favorite wife.
680
681[[WMG:The Queen of Sheba]]
682* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Debate rages to this day as to whether or not she was ever intimately involved with Solomon during her visit.
683* TheSmartGuy: She was pretty well-read and eloquent
684* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Debates about the location of Sheba range to this day.
685
686[[WMG:Job]]
687->''"The Lord gave and The Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of The Lord!"''
688* ButtMonkey: Loses everything and suffers nasty sores as part of a bet between God and Satan, and to add insult to injury, when God finally appears to Job, He goes on a [[BadassBoast really big tirade]] about how great He is. He does give Job back double everything he lost in the end, though.
689* CharacterFilibuster: Job and his 3 friends really liked to talk.
690* CosmicPlaything: Gets caught in a whole mess with God and Satan, though God does give him back double everything he lost in the end.
691* DeusAngstMachina: [[SerialEscalation Escalating]] from losing [[FromBadToWorse his material goods, to his family, to his health]].
692* ReplacementGoldfish: God restores Job's wealth and family after the ordeal is over. His old children are still dead, so God grants Job a new set of replacement, more beautiful children.
693* RulesLawyer: As [[DeadpanSnarker David Plotz]] points out, he accused God of wrongdoing, but didn't technically ''curse'' Him, as Satan had wanted.
694* SmiteMeOhMightySmiter: The Satan tried to invoke this reaction, and his own wife suggested it so he could be put out of his misery. [[spoiler:It didn't work.]]
695* TraumaCongaLine - UrExample: Servants rush in to inform him of the latest tragedy to plague his estate even while previous servants are ''still informing him of the one before it''.
696* WithFriendsLikeThese: Job's visitors keep insisting that he must have done something to deserve all his suffering, and turn on him when he denies it. In the end, God is far angrier with them than with Job, but pardons them when Job, despite everything, brings an offering on their behalf.
697%%* ZenSurvivor
698
699[[WMG:Kingdom of Israel]]
700After Solomon, the kingdom splits in two, Israel is the northern one. The kingdom quickly turned to worshipping other gods, and was eventually punished by being conquered by Assyria.
701* DecadentCourt: Close to half of its rulers are overthrown, suggesting the kingdom is prone to these.
702* TheGoodKing: Had very few of these.
703* MadeASlave: The earthly reason for rebelling. The northern Kingdom was already not fully invested in the united monarchy, and continuing forced labor finally was too much.
704* {{Realpolitik}}: This is the initial reason for the Northern Kingdom's turn to idolatry; Jeroboam fears that allowing his subjects to go to Jerusalem to worship would undermine their loyalty towards him, and sets up two golden calves as a substitute.
705* TooDumbToLive: Several times, rulers try to rebel against Assyria, the most powerful empire in the region. This is the earthly reason the kingdom gets conquered.
706* WarRefugees: What happens to its population after conquest. This was a deliberate Assyrian policy, conquered populations would be forced to move somewhere else, where they would be unfamiliar with the area and more easily controlled. People from other regions were settled in Israel as replacements.
707
708[[WMG:Kingdom of Judah]]
709The Southern kingdom, named after its biggest tribe. Stayed loyal to the family of David, but also engaged in some idolatry and worship of other gods.
710* CurbStompBattle: When the kingdom fights Assyria and Babylonia, it goes quite badly. In the Assyrian case, the kingdom survived, in the babylonian case, the kingdom is conquered and destroyed after invasion and some revolts. Records from the two empires back up the story.
711* TheGoodKing: Switched between these and bad kings.
712* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Happens when a not so good king takes power. Idolatry is encouraged, the kingdom decays.
713* WarRefugees: A number of these from Israel settled here after it was conquered.
714
715[[WMG:Zimri, king of Israel]]
716* DrivenToSuicide: Set his palace on fire.
717* KlingonPromotion: Became King by assassination. His "reign" lasted a week. Before Judas, Zimri was the byword for traitor. Jezebel called Jehu a "Zimri".
718
719[[WMG:Omri]]
720* HeroOfAnotherStory: In the bible, he gets little more attention than other kings. Records from Assyria and other nearby kingdoms suggests he was powerful and highly successful, conquering a lot of territory and helping keep the Assyrians out of the region.
721* KlingonPromotion: The one who overthrew Zimri.
722
723[[WMG:Ahab]]
724->''"I will purge the house of Ahab like I had done to the houses of Jeroboam and Baasha. Anyone who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs and anyone who dies in the country will be eaten by birds!"''
725* CornerOfWoe: After Naboth refused to sell his vineyard to Ahab, Ahab proceeded to curl up on his couch, refuse to eat, and go into a truly royal sulk.
726* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Sometimes he will realize that he's doing wrong and try to make amends, only to go back to his wicked ways.
727* HeelRealization: After Elijah declared to him the fate of his family, Ahab tore his clothing and fasted, humbling himself before God.
728* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His plan to get Jehosaphat killed in battle backfired and Ahab was killed instead.
729* ManipulativeBastard: Was always scheming to displace the Davidic dynasty in Judah.
730
731[[WMG:Jezebel]]
732->''The very dogs will eat up Jezebel in the plot of land of Jezreel''
733
734%%* ApocalypseMaiden
735* BeautyIsBad: Could very well be the poster child for this trope. She is extremely beautiful... and has the people of Israel killed if they refused to worship the Phoenician god Ba'al. In the process, she turns many Israelites away from God.
736* {{Curse}}: Elijah fortold that Jezebel would be eaten by dogs when she died. He was right, and it gets described in gory detail.
737* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Being eaten by dogs.
738* DisneyVillainDeath: At least the thrown out of the tower bit. What comes after, on the other hand....
739* FaceDeathWithDignity: She ''knew'' that she wasn't going to survive her confrontation with Jehu, so she just put on her best clothes and got ready for whatever it'd come.
740* {{Flanderization}}: Over the years her defining feature has become a [[SexIsEvil sexual, seductive nature]], when in reality she was an influential and powerful, if evil, Queen.
741* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: One of the oldest examples of the "evil queen" archetype.
742* KickTheDog: After her husband failed to buy Naboth's vineyard, she just coldly arranged his death. And embarrassed him in the process.
743%%* LadyMacbeth: The OlderThanFeudalism example
744%%* MoralMyopia
745* TheDreaded: Even Elijah, who could call down fire from heaven, was scared of her.
746* ThePurge: Ordered the deaths of the Israeli prophets.
747* ToxicFriendInfluence: Lead her husband Ahab down the path of Baal worship and is usually considered to be a bit more evil than he.
748* TropeNamers: Her name is associated with the {{flanderization}}.
749
750[[WMG:Elijah the Tishbite]]
751->''He went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. [[FriendToAllLivingThings And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening]]; and he drank of the brook.''
752* AngelUnaware: Jewish tradition has him taking up this role. Elijah was human back in Biblical days, but he never died and, according to legend, ascended to heaven while still alive. To this day, it is believed he turns up on Earth sometimes to deliver unexpected help.
753* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: He went to heaven in a fiery whirlwind, rather than die. When he ascended, his robes/coat fell onto his apprentice/friend/padawan Elisha, thus inventing the phrase "Taking up The Mantle of The Prophet". Many still leave a seat open for him at feasts, because they believe that he will come back. In fact, the last verse of the Old Testament refers to Elijah coming back to announce the Day of the Lord.
754* BadassLongcoat: The Coat, or Mantle of The Prophet. It was instrumental in Elijah and Elisha's first meeting, Elijah threw The Coat at Elisha, who instinctively caught it. Later, Elijah parted a river with with it, just before giving it to Elisha, who also used it perform miracles.
755* CleverCrows: God sent ravens to feed him.
756* FriendToAllLivingThings: When he was hungry ravens would bring food to him. Despite his skill in killing people he was very good with animals and kids. It might have something to do with how he grew up in the wilderness.
757* LastOfHisKind:
758** He thought that he was the last surviving prophet and the last faithful person left for a while. God told him that [[YouAreNotAlone he was not alone]] and, even if he is the last prophet, he can always train some more prophets, like Elisha.
759** He and Elisha were also the last major Old Testament characters to work miracles. (Though many characters in the New Testament worked miracles.)
760%%* PlayingWithFire: His specialty.
761* YouAreNotAlone: God showed up, not in a maelstrom of fire, not in a howling wind/hurrricane, but in a still, small voice to tell Elijah this.
762
763[[WMG:Elisha]]
764->''The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha.''
765* ArcWords: His last words to Elijah, "My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.", were spoken to him also as he lay dying. No one knows what it means even now.
766* BadassLongcoat: Given to him by Elijah, later used to part the sea, proving himself the true prophet, thus inventing the phrase "Taking up the mantle of the prophet".
767* BearsAreBadNews: Summons them to maul his enemies.
768* BerserkButton: Never insult his mentor and NEVER mock his baldness in front of him.
769* DisproportionateRetribution: 42 youths died for insulting his baldness. Not the best reaction...
770* DubInducedPlothole: A nice prophet guy summoning bears to maul what King James and co. translate as "children" makes a ''lot'' more sense when you look at the actual Hebrew word and see what it means and how it was used. He was being mocked by a gang of 42 young men, which could have been a threat, especially if they were soldiers.
771%%* GoodIsNotNice
772* NiceGuy: Surprisingly so, especially when compared to his mentor, Elijah. While most of Elijah's miracles were powerful, violent, and fiery, Elisha's miracles were mostly to heal, save, or help people. Elijah showed thousands of people the power of God, while Elisha preached to individuals, and showed God's helpful, loving side. Just don't insult Elijah, or mock his baldness. However, Elisha was not good with kids, nor was he as good with animals as Elijah. Maybe it was because he was a city kid?
773* ThinkNothingOfIt: he refused to take a material reward for curing Naaman of leprosy; however, his friend Gehazi, gladly took Naaman's stuff, and for that he got leprosy himself.
774
775[[WMG:Jehu, king of Israel]]
776* DrivesLikeCrazy: His master the king recognized him (2 Kings 9:20) because he drives his chariot "like a madman".
777* ThePurge: Killed Jezebel and all Baal priests as well as Ahab's relatives.
778* WellIntentionedExtremist: Appointed by God to eradicate pagan worship in Israel but his penchant for mass murder went far beyond what was expected of him.
779
780[[WMG:Athaliah, queen of Judah]]
781%%* ApocalypseMaiden
782* GenerationXerox: She's every bit as wicked as her mother.
783* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Was one kid away from destroying David's royal line.
784* LadyMacbeth: She leads King Jehoram, and by extent all of Judah, into abandoning God.
785* OffingTheOffspring: After her oldest son dies, she orders the deaths of her grandchildren.
786* ThePurge: What her father Ahab couldn't do with intrigue and manipulation, she tried to do with force.
787
788[[WMG:Joash, king of Judah]]
789* AChildShallLeadThem: Sadly, he got worse as he got older.
790* CantTakeCriticism: When a prophet named Zechariah rebukes him for turning to idolatry, he has the prophet executed.
791* FaithHeelTurn: Under the tutelage of Jehoiada, he serves God faithfully. After Jehoiada's death, he turns to worshipping pagan deities. When Zechariah rebukes him for it, he has him executed by stoning.
792* MosesInTheBulrushes: Saved from being killed during his grandmother's purge.
793* UngratefulBastard: He orders Zechariah's execution despite the fact that Zechariah was the son of Jehoiada, who saved him from his grandmother's purge.
794
795[[WMG:Amaziah, king of Judah]]
796* FaithHeelTurn: At the start of his reign, he follows God's commandments. But after going to war with Edom, he starts worshipping their deities.
797* TooDumbToLive: He worships gods that couldn't even protect their own people.
798
799[[WMG:Uzziah, king of Judah]]
800* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Under him, the kingdom of Judah reaches new heights of power and prosperity. Unfortunately, he becomes arrogant and tries to take on the duties of the priesthood. In retaliation, God gives him a harsh lesson in separation of church and state.
801* BreakTheHaughty: As punishment for attempting to burn incense in the temple, he's stricken with leprosy.
802* TheGoodKing: Was this before he became corrupted by power.
803
804[[WMG:Jotham, king of Judah]]
805* TheGoodKing: {{Downplayed|Trope}}: while he's personally pious, he fails to root out heathen practices in the kingdom.
806
807[[WMG:Ahaz, king of Judah]]
808* AbsurdlyYouthfulFather: He's 20 when he takes the throne and reigns for sixteen years, but his son Hezekiah is 25 when he succeeds his father, which would make Ahaz just 11 years old when he fathered Hezekiah. Some biblical scholars have explained this by assuming that Ahaz was actually in his early 20s when Hezekiah was born, and that he made his son co-regent for 14 years after sixteen years of ruling alone.
809* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: While his father obeys God, Ahaz is an unrepentant heathen.
810
811[[WMG:Hezekiah, king of Judah]]
812* TheGoodKing: Does his best to bring Judah back to God after his father's disastrous reign.
813* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nice job showing those Babylonian envoys all Judah's treasures, putting your nation on Babylon's hit list.
814
815[[WMG:Manasseh, king of Judah]]
816* AChildShallLeadThem: He becomes king at twelve years old.
817* BreakTheHaughty: As punishment for his sins, God allows him to be captured by the Assyrians, who treat him in a very humiliating manner.
818* HeelFaithTurn: After being taken prisoner, he repents of his evil ways and prays to God for forgiveness. As a result, God allows him to return to Judah, where he spends the rest of his life stamping out idolatry.
819* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: While his father is a man of faith, Manasseh is described as the most evil person to sit on the throne of Judah.
820* OffingTheOffspring: He sacrifices his children to Moloch.
821* TheCaligula: Before his HeelFaithTurn, he's described as the most wicked king in Judah's history. He institutes the worship of pagan gods, practices witchcraft, and [[ThePurge orders the execution of anyone who doesn't obey his religious policies]].
822
823[[WMG:Josiah, king of Judah]]
824* AChildShallLeadThem: He takes the throne at eight years old.
825* TheAce: The greatest king of Judah bar none.
826* HeroicBSOD: He found a "Book of the Law" (possibly Deuteronomy) and ripped his clothes and mourned because he realized how far his nation had forgotten its roots.
827* TragicMistake: Going to war with Egypt. He was killed in battle and Judah just couldn't recover.
828
829[[WMG:Jeremiah]]
830->''"Before you were formed I knew you. Before you were born I set you apart"''
831* TheCassandra: He tries desperately to get the people of Judah to return to God, but they refuse to listen.
832* TheChosenOne: Jeremiah was chosen by God who already knew him before the day he was born.
833* HeroicBSOD: Seems to be in this state every day of his life.
834* MadOracle: Is viewed this way by the people of Judah.
835* UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking: At first.
836
837[[WMG:Hosea]]
838->''"Go, get yourself *a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land will stray from following the LORD."''.
839* ArrangedMarriage: God told him to marry an unfaithful harlot as an object lesson to Israel's idolatry.
840* LoveMartyr: Part of the point God was making was to tell Hosea's audience "Look at what Gomer is doing to him: he gives her his home, his reputation, his good name, and everything, and see how she repays him! How can he go on loving her and taking her back when she treats him that way, you may ask? Well, I've been asking Myself the exact same thing about you people, because that's the exact same way you've been treating Me!"
841* MyGirlIsASlut: Poor guy was told that his wife would be unfaithful to him.
842* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to his Amos' red. He spoke out against Israel's internal spiritual problem.
843
844[[WMG:Jonah]]
845->''The Lord spoke to Jonah and said "Go to Nineveh, that wicked city, and speak out against it". Jonah set out in the opposite direction.''
846* RefusalOfTheCall: More like he didn't want to preach in the Assyrian capital which would have got him killed. [[SymbolicHeroRebirth He would face a trial that made him reconsider]].
847* WhatTheHellHero: God did this after Jonah became upset after the people repented:
848-->''But the LORD said, “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left—and much livestock?”''
849
850[[WMG:Amos]]
851->''"Let justice flow like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!"''
852%%* BearsAreBadNews: 5:19
853%%* JusticeWillPrevail
854* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Hosea's blue. He was a plain spoken Judean farmer who railed against Israel's corrupt affluence.
855%%* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: See above
856
857[[WMG:Isaiah]]
858->''"Though your sins are as scarlet, you shall be as white as snow"''.
859* CruelAndUnusualDeath: While his fate is never mentioned in the Bible itself, Jewish tradition holds that he was [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sawed in half]] at the orders of King Manasseh.
860* DreamingOfThingsToCome: He saw 2 centuries into Israel's future. Some scholars believe these were written by other prophets and attributed them to Isaiah to increase their authority.
861
862[[WMG:Micah]]
863->''"Nations will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks and they will war no more"''. [[note]]This was such a good verse that Isaiah quoted it[[/note]]
864
865[[WMG:Ezekiel]]
866->''They are a hard and obstinate people so I will make you as hard and obstinate as they"''.
867* CelebrityIsOverrated: People finally listened to him when Jerusalem fell but it was clear to him that they have still not taken God's words to heart.
868* BunnyEarsLawyer: At one point, he makes a model of Jerusalem and besieges it in the city square for about fourteen months. Another time, he shaves his head and beard with a sword, then runs about town with a portion of the hair hitting it with the sword.
869* GoodShepherd: He cultivated the image of God as a shepherd better than anyone.
870
871[[WMG:Daniel]]
872->''O Daniel, a man greatly beloved.''
873* BadassBookworm: A total genius (he was one of the top students at the royal academy) who interpreted the king's dreams and didn't flinch a bit when thrown into a cave of hungry lions. 99% of people would shit their pants even if they did know God will protect them).
874* FriendToAllLivingThings: Which saved his life when confronted by hungry lions.
875* GuileHero: Daniel, interestingly, is also a ScienceHero, considering the manner in which he manages to persuade the king to cut down on feasting…
876* MeaningfulRename: The Babylonians changed his name to Belteshazzar in an attempt to get him to worship Babylonian deities.
877* TheSmartGuy: A brilliant scholar and a top-notch administrator.
878* TropeNamers: In the lions' den. Yes, this book has coined a lot of idioms.
879
880[[WMG:Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego]]
881->''"If so it must be, our God whom we serve is able to save us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will save us from your power, O king. But even if He does not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your god or worship the statue of gold that you have set up.”''
882* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: When they refuse to bow down to Nebuchadnezzar's golden idol, their response is "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter, for if so it must be, our God whom we serve is able to save us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will save us from your power, O king. But even if He does not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your god or worship the statue of gold that you have set up."
883* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted. As punishment for refusing to bow down to the king's idol, these three guys get thrown into a furnace. The subversion happens when God protects them within the fire and they emerge from the furnace completely unharmed.
884* MeaningfulRename: They were given new names by the Babylonian government. Their Hebrew names, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were all meant to glorify God; their new names were meant to glorify Babylonian deities. The name change was supposed to help indoctrinate them in the Babylonian religion. It didn't work.
885%%* RuleOfThree: Happens a lot.
886
887[[WMG:Nebuchadnezzar]]
888%%* TheAtoner
889%%* BreakTheHaughty
890* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Had a dream that Daniel interpreted.
891* HeelFaceTurn: Daniel 4 is his narrative outlining how it happened.
892* KneelBeforeZod: Forces Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego to worship his idol. They refuse and are thrown into a fire.
893
894[[WMG:Queen Vashti]]
895->''"And the king ordered his wife Vashti to appear before his guests wearing her crown, that he might display her beauty before them, but she came not."''
896
897* BeautyIsBad: Viewed by some as defiant and haughty
898%%* {{Foil}}: To Esther
899* MsFanservice: Averted; her husband asked her to come to his banquet to show her off, but she refused
900%%* PutOnABus
901* VainSorceress: She is viewed as vain and conceited for not arriving
902* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After she is banished from the empire, she is never mentioned again, and it is not known what happened to her.
903* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: So beautiful that her husband wants to show her off (according to some, wearing ''nothing except'' her crown).
904
905[[WMG:Queen Esther]]
906->''"I will go to the king, even if it is forbidden. And if I perish, I perish''"
907%%* BeautyEqualsGoodness
908* GuileHeroine: She used her wits and good looks to save the Jews from Haman.
909* HotConsort: Became this to the King of Persia.
910* NeverASelfMadeWoman: She saved her people through her husband, the king.
911%%* PluckyGirl
912* RagsToRoyalty: Chosen to be [[TheHighQueen queen]] (to replace Queen Vashti after her husband Ahasuerus/Xerxes banished her from the empire). Esther is an ordinary young girl, and at that one of the Jews living in exile in Babylon, but she is chosen by the king himself out of a harem on account of [[TheBeautifulElite her beauty]]. She keeps herself there thanks to her charm and her wits, and ultimately saves her people.
913* SecondLove: To Ahasuerus/Xerxes.
914* SelfMadeMan: She managed to be quite successful even with a lack of miracles backing her up. Often used to drive home the point "God only helps when needed."
915* StellarName: Her name means "star".
916* TimeSkip: Her crowning was delayed by 4 years possibly because Xerxes was [[Film/ThreeHundred fighting those pesky Greeks]].
917* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: She was chosen as queen because she was regarded as the most beautiful woman in the Persian Empire. (Which did, in fact, stretch across much of the known world at that time.)
918%%* YamatoNadeshiko
919
920[[WMG:Mordechai]]
921->"''See how the king rewards a man he wishes to honor!"''
922%%* OldMaster: To Esther.
923* ParentalSubstitute: He took care of Esther after her parents died when she was a little girl
924* WifeHusbandry: Subverted, as he should have married her per the Jewish rules but didn't do so.
925
926[[WMG:Haman]]
927->''"Who else would the king honor aside from me?"''
928* DisproportionateRetribution: Tried to institute government sanctioned genocide just because one man refused to bow to him.
929* EvilChancellor: A Persian minister who [[FinalSolution tried to convince his king to exterminate the Jewish population that was scattered in the Persian Empire]]. Since the queen was secretly Jewish (and her cousin had saved the king's life), this did not go well for him. He is probably one of the oldest in the book, as well as one of the most evil.
930* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Hanged on his own gallows that were built for Mordechai. Even before that, he gave his advice to the king on how to honor someone who's done a great service to the king, so he gave one that he would like... only to be told to do all that to Mordechai instead.
931* KneelBeforeZod: He is completely furious that Mordechai, being a Jew, doesn't bow to him.
932* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Esther divulged his plan to exterminate her people, he held the queen's robes to beg for mercy. Unfortunately for him, the king was out to cool his head, and walked back in to witness the scene, thinking he's about to assault or defile the queen. It's all curtains for him now.
933* OhCrap: Upon realizing that his queen (Esther) is one of the very people he plans to have massacred, right when she outs him to the king.
934* {{Pride}}: As shown in the above quote. It backfires badly on him in a meeting where the king says he wants to lavishly reward someone for their services to him. Haman assumes the king is talking about him and suggests the reward of a parade celebrating their heroism... only to find to his horror the king is actually talking about his hated rival Mordechai.
935* SmugSnake: One of the oldest examples. He's arrogant, thin-skinned, and prone to losing his dignity when things don't go according to plan.
936* VillainousBreakdown: Cried to his wife when he found out Mordechai was to be honored for uncovering a conspiracy years before.
937
938[[WMG:Ezra]]
939->''"O LORD, God of Israel, You are in the right, for we have survived as a remnant, as is now the case."''
940%%* TheSmartGuy
941
942[[WMG:Nehemiah]]
943->''"Remember The Lord, who is awesome and mighty, and fight!"''
944%%* TheDeterminator
945
946[[WMG:Helel/Lucifer (Possibly Satan or a Babylonian king)]]
947->''How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How art thou fallen from heaven,''
948* AGodAmI: Even if he is not Satan, the passage concerning him states quite plainly he wants to make himself like "the Most High".
949* BeautyIsBad: He was "perfect in beauty" and his ways until inequity was found in him.
950* DubNameChange: In the original Hebrew, his name is pronounced as "Hay-lel" or "Helel" which literally means "shining one" and metaphorically means "morning star" or "day star". However, he is ''far'' more well known with the Latin translation of the word, "Lucifer" which literally means "light bearer" or "light bringer"
951* FaceHeelTurn: Whoever he was, human or angel, the whole passage describes his fall from heaven as a metaphor for this.
952* {{Pride}}: The main reason for his FaceHeelTurn.
953* LightIsNotGood: His association with light is accompanied with unflattering descriptions of FaceHeelTurn.
954
955[[WMG:Behemoth and Leviathan (and the Ziz; he is alluded to in 2 Chronicles)]]
956* BreakoutCharacter: Their mysterious nature have made them popular in pop culture. Leviathan became the Demon of Envy. This mostly just applies to Behemoth and Leviathan, though. Poor Ziz got DemotedToExtra.
957* GagPenis: Behemoth is described as having "flesh like that of an ass".
958* GiantFlyer: the Ziz is depicted as a giant bird.
959* LandSeaSky: Behemoth is a huge, fearsome beast of burden (Land), Leviathan is a massive sea serpent (Sea) and Ziz is an enormous bird (Sky).
960* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Leviathan, a huge, reptilian, fire-breathing sea monster.
961
962[[/folder]]
963
964[[folder:New Testament]]
965
966[[WMG:[[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Jesus Christ]]]]
967->''"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."''
968* AngelUnaware: Appeared to His disciples after His death, but they did not recognize Him at first.
969* BackFromTheDead: "But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him."
970* BadassBoast: "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die."
971%%* BadassPacifist: See TheDeterminator below.
972%%* BerserkButton: Don't treat His father's house like a marketplace. ''EVER.''
973%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sure, He will die for your sins, but if you ever happen to push His BerserkButton, may God help you... actually, He wouldn't.
974%%* BullyingADragon: Frequently target of this.
975%%* CassandraTruth:
976%%* CelibateHero:
977* TheChosenOne: According to most Christian Denominations, Jesus is the fulfillment of the Messianic Prophecy. Furthermore, he'll be this trope again in the second coming when he returns to judge the living and the dead.
978* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: When asked if an adulterer should be stoned, Jesus wrote or drew something in the dirt with his finger instead of answering, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. [[ObfuscatingStupidity A lot of the time, these moments ''do'' help him make his point.]]
979* CompellingVoice: He can stop storms with His voice.
980* CrucifiedHeroShot: The TropeCodifier. He died at the cross to atone for mankind's sins.
981* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Crucifixion was actually a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion standard public execution method]] in ancient Rome, but it was most definitely cruel. Certain aspects of his death were made to be more brutal than usual, like the Crown of Thorns.
982* DeathGlare: Surprisingly enough. The Bible has many accounts of Jesus defusing a bad situation or stopping a potential attacker just by ''looking'' at them.
983* {{Determinator}}: The man could. Not. Be. Stopped. Not by Legionnaires, not by crowds, not by endless humiliations and sufferings, not by death itself and all of the sins of ALL EXISTENCE.
984* ForgivenessRequiresDeath: With the twist that Jesus wasn't guilty, he was dying to get forgiveness for everyone else.
985* FriendToAllChildren: Jesus had a soft spot for the innocents, especially children, "for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."
986%%* FriendToAllLivingThings:
987* HealingHands: He healed a lot of people, usually by laying hands on them.
988* TheHero: Of the New Testament. Specifically, a GuileHero who pwned people with smarts rather than violence.
989* HeroicSacrifice: Jesus had to die and suffer punishment for mankind's sins, in order to make it possible for people to be saved and not have to suffer punishment for their own sins.
990%%* HumbleHero: Shows this in many ways.
991* HumiliationConga: The "Passion" was an ordeal Jesus was put through before his formal execution. It began with a public flogging, then escalated to being slapped around by the mob, and crowned with a crown of thorns to mock his claims of kingship.
992%%* IncorruptiblePurePureness
993* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Oh yes. He endured many hardships during his time on Earth, with it ending in his CruelAndUnusualDeath.
994* KungFuJesus: Despite forcibly kicking shady merchants out of the temple on more than one occasion, this is mostly averted. In fact, the people turned against Him because He ''wasn't'' this; they expected their Messiah to lead a revolt against Rome.
995* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: In many Bibles, His words are written in red. Also, He is often portrayed wearing purple robes, purple being a color long associated with royalty in the West.
996* LightIsGood: He could also be considered GoodIsNotNice.
997* LineageComesFromTheFather: Subverted. Jesus is both the legal and biological heir of David; Legally through Joseph, but it turns out that the geneology in Luke is actually Mary's, tracing her back to David. In addition, there are a few women so well-respected that Matthew felt the need to mention them; Tamar, Bath-sheba, Rahab, and Ruth.
998* LivingForeverIsAwesome: The Sadducees and he were ''always arguing'' as the former were adamant there was [[CessationOfExistence nothing after death]]. Jesus wanted them to accept they would [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence be resurrected]] and be no different than the angels.
999* TheMedic: He healed a lot of people.
1000* MessianicArchetype: The TropeMaker.
1001* PhysicalGod: Most if not all Christian Theologies accept him as God incarnated in the flesh, or rather an [[EldritchAbomination aspect of God]] (The Son) wanting to demonstrate its love for people.
1002* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: Often took the RulesLawyer Pharisees down a notch or two.
1003* ThePowerOfLove: One of Jesus's most remembered teachings is to love God and to love thy neighbor. Jesus emphasizes love as ''the'' most powerful thing in the universe. ([[PowerOfTrust Faith]] and Hope being the two runners-up)
1004* RashomonStyle: The four gospels emphasize different sides of Jesus based on each evangelist's target audience. Matthew showed Jesus as an Expy of Moses and [[ShownTheirWork cited a myriad of Old Testament prophecies]] to really drive the whole Messiah thing home. Mark's gospel was DarkerAndEdgier because his audience was persecuted Christians. Luke's gospel is LighterAndSofter, emphasizing NiceGuy qualities of Jesus because he was targeting non-Jewish converts. John's gospel is the most mystic-like of the four and writes a HigherSelf version of Jesus to emphasize His divinity.
1005* ScarsAreForever: He still had the scars from His crucifixion after He rose from the dead, probably because the Apostles would not believe unless they felt them.
1006%%* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: His ethics in a nutshell.
1007* SelfRestraint: He went along with being sentenced to death.
1008* ShutUpHannibal: Jesus essentially said something similar to Satan three times when Lucifer tempted Him in the wilderness ('Man does not live by bread alone but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God'), tried to get Him to throw himself off a hill ('Do not test the Lord your God') and worship him instead ("It is written, 'You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him'.").
1009* SinEater: Christ's death on the Cross made him the Perfect Sacrifice needed to reforge the connection between humanity and God by taking on all the sins of mankind. He also used the weight of those sins as ballast to bring him into Hell, where he fought the devil for three days. Presumably, he left them there.
1010* TakeAThirdOption:
1011** One of His specialties. Notable Example: saving the adulteress from stoning by basically telling those who wanted to kill her "hey you guys, [[NotSoAboveItAll it's not like you're]] [[MoralMyopia so pure either]]".
1012** There's also the time where the Pharisees asked if it was legal to pay taxes to Rome, hoping they could get Jesus arrested for his answer; Jesus outsmarted them with a simple answer of "if it belongs to Rome, give it to them".
1013* TakeThat: It's hard to read His words and not think He's talking about someone today, but He was more talking about the people of his time, their hypocrisy and blindness to injustice. But, since He's omnipotent, He very well could be talking about people today, so this can be DoublySubverted.
1014* TeamDad: For His Apostles
1015%%* ThanatosGambit: He gets better.
1016* TurnTheOtherCheek: The {{Trope Namer|s}}.
1017* TheUnreveal: In John 8, the people brought a woman who was caught in adultery in [[RunningGag yet another attempt to trap Jesus by his own words]]. To settle the dispute, Jesus wrote something in the ground that apparently blew them away and made everyone stop fighting. This is the only recorded instance of Jesus ever writing anything. But none of the books ever tell us ''what'' he wrote. Commentators have suggested that what Jesus wrote on the ground was the accusers' own sins, as a way of calling them out for hypocrisy.
1018* VerbalTic: In the book of John, "I tell you the truth," or "Truly, truly I say to you."
1019* WhamLine: "Tonight, one of you will betray me" at the last supper.
1020* WorkingClassHero: Depending on which translation of the Bible you read, Jesus was either a carpenter or a simple handyman, who got along well with the common people and preached a simple message of loving each other that resonated strongly with humble folk.
1021
1022[[WMG:{{Satan}}]]
1023->''Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:''
1024* AGodAmI: He tried to place himself above God, and was struck down for his {{Pride}}.
1025* BigBad: The king of all big bads. He created evil in his heart and rebelled against God, and will be the first and the last Big Bad to exist.
1026* BlowYouAway: Briefly mentioned as "lord of the air".
1027* CompositeCharacter: In Jewish tradition, Satan is a separate entity from Helel/Lucifer. However, most Christian beliefs have various reasons to believe they are one in the same.
1028* DealWithTheDevil: Quite literally. He tried to get Jesus to worship him in exchange for the world, but Jesus refused.
1029* EldritchAbomination: If the descriptions of the other angels are to be taken literally he started out as quite weird looking; according to {{Fanon}} he was a seraph, meaning he was a six winged being with eyes on every feather and [[BrownNote that anyone seeing his true form would burn to death]].
1030* FaceHeelTurn: The Bible paints his rebellion as the first one in all existence.
1031* FallenAngel: The Bible itself offers no direct confirmation, but various passages and sects believe he is the first angel to try and defy God as well.
1032* {{Jerkass}}: He caused the whole human race to fall as well as a third of the angels and will try to murder anyone who hasn't got the {{Mark of the Beast}} during the Great Tribulation.
1033* KneelBeforeZod: Tried to get Jesus to worship him.
1034* LightTheWay: His real name according to some interpretations is Helel ([[DubNameChange translated into Latin as Lucifer]]), which means "a shining one" and he is an angel. In fact, his title as "prince of darkness" isn't very supported by Literature/TheBible itself (unless you consider reptiles "dark"). Obviously LightIsNotGood when he is presented ACCURATELY as a villain.
1035* LightIsNotGood: Satan transforms/disguises himself as an angel of light, and the Bible (especially the Gospels and the Book of Revelation) states he is evil.
1036* MaliciousSlander: He is referred to as the "accuser of the brethren".
1037* TheCorrupter: To Judas at the very least. If he was the serpent in Eden, then he was also one to Eve.
1038* TheManBehindTheMan
1039** Various passages in the Old Testament regarding about punishing various sinners are believed by some interpretations to be two-fold - the first half of the described punishment goes to the sinner, and the second half is directed to Satan acting through the sinner. This is most noticeable with the serpent in Eden: whereas the first half curses the serpent about how he will crawl on his belly and eat dust for all his life, the second half addresses Satan behind the serpent, declaring he will be enemies with Eve's offspring and bruising their heels.
1040** He is also the man behind the scenes powering the beast/Antichrist/lawless one's miracles, signs and wonders in the last days.
1041* TheMasquerade: In much of the world today. A popular quote is that Satan's greatest trick was convincing the world he doesn't exist.
1042* MeaningfulName: Satan means "the adversary" or "the accuser". [[BigBad Guess what his role is]].
1043* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Takes the form of a red, seven headed dragon in Revelation. Whether he really looks like this, or if he shape shifted, is not specified, may not even be literal (Revelation is [[MindScrew strange]]).
1044* OurGeniesAreDifferent: In Islam, he is believed to be a Jinn/Genie.
1045* SadlyMythtaken: Most people nowadays see him as a horned, red skinned guy with a trident and a tail, with the title: "prince of darkness". None of this is supported by the Bible. Also, he does not rule hell, nor is he actually in hell yet. While on the topic, nowhere in the Bible is hell really described.
1046* SatanIsGood: He started out officially working for God; sects and religions disagree on how long that gig lasted, whether if he's still in the Lord's employ, or if he's now an independently malicious agent.
1047* SealedEvilInACan: He is not allowed in heaven.
1048* SlidingScaleOfBeauty: Level I. In fact he was so perfect and beautiful as Lucifer before his fall, that a ''third of the host of all Heaven'' willingly followed him in rebelling against the Almighty.
1049* WeCanRuleTogether: He tried to make this deal with Jesus.
1050
1051[[WMG:Virgin Mary]]
1052->''"Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.!"''
1053* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Became Queen of the world according to some Christian traditions.
1054%%* BeautyEqualsGoodness
1055%%* BreakoutCharacter - In Catholicism.
1056* CelibateHeroine: Played straight at the time of Jesus' birth - there's a reason she got her title. Possibly averted afterward, depending on whether you translate references to Jesus' "adelphoi" as "kinsmen" or "brothers and sisters".
1057* TheChosenOne: Chosen by God out of many different young women to be the mother of Jesus. [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne She had to watch her son be humiliated and killed, and cannot do anything about it.]]
1058* GirlyGirl: The most feminine figure in Christianity.
1059* TheHighQueen: To those who believe that she became Queen of Heaven and Queen of the World at the end of her earthly existence
1060* HumbleHeroine: Despite the praise Catholics heap on her, Mary herself always took care to direct attention to Jesus, rather than herself.
1061* IncorruptiblePurePureness: The Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception states that she ''had'' to be perfect from the very beginning in order to be a suitable mother for Jesus, and so she was spared from [[SinsOfOurFathers Original Sin]]. The other denominations argue she couldn't be perfect for the reasons of only God was truly perfect and that if she was perfect she could have taken the sins of the world instead of Jesus.
1062%%* TheIngenue
1063* JewishMother: Well, literally. Subverted, however, in that she isn't really a ControlFreak.
1064* {{Miko}}: Extrabiblical tradition has it that she was the equivalent of this (played straight) from an early age.
1065* OneSteveLimit: Averted. She shares the same name with another important person in Jesus’ life, Mary Magdalene.
1066* SomethingAboutARose: Roses are a flower associated with her, notably the most iconic prayer about her is the rosary (meaning "rose garden")
1067%%* TeamMom
1068%%* VirginPower
1069%%* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman
1070%%* YamatoNadeshiko
1071
1072[[WMG:Joseph of Nazareth]]
1073* DisappearedDad: [[WildMassGuessing Theological scholars]] speculate Joseph's lack of appearance post-Nativity may be due to Joseph dying at some point.
1074* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Averted. After finding out that Mary was pregnant, he decided to (quietly) divorce her rather than make a big deal about it and have her be humiliated. That was really decent of him, considering the time and place he was in, he probably saved Mary's life (though he did come back for her).
1075* NiceGuy: While he doesn't appear too much in the Bible, what we do see of him makes him come across as a decent enough guy who happened to be Jesus' stepfather. In a society that would shame unfaithful women much more than men, he was completely respectful of his fianceé even after learning that she was pregnant, and considering how Jesus turned out, we can assume he was a good father.
1076
1077[[WMG:John the Baptist]]
1078->''And there was a cry from the wilderness...''
1079* BeyondTheImpossible: John the Baptist and Jesus saluted each other in the womb.
1080%%* HermitGuru
1081* OffWithHisHead: What happened to him in the end.
1082* OvershadowedByAwesome: He was a religious leader of great renown in Judea, with an army of followers. Once Jesus came onto the scene his fame and influence faded quickly. He all but admitted it himself when Jesus came to him to be baptized, saying, "It is you who should be baptizing me."
1083
1084[[WMG:The Apostles/disciples]]
1085Peter, Andrew, James the brother of John, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the Lesser, Thaddeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas [[InsistentTerminology the Betrayer]]. Matthias was later brought into the group as Judas' replacement. Peter, John, and Judas have their own sections below.
1086
1087* FlatEarthAtheist: Thomas has this reputation if the phrase "Doubting Thomas" is anything to go by, but it's fairly unjustified: all the apostles had trouble accepting Jesus' resurrection without physical proof; Thomas was just singled out because he arrived late. In addition, Jesus readily offered said proof and they immediately believed upon seeing it.
1088* LiteralMinded: The Apostles were often clueless about the things Jesus taught. They thought that Jesus was coming to restore the monarchy that David started [[spoiler:even after Jesus rose from the dead]]. It wasn't until after Jesus sent the Holy Spirit that the Apostles understood everything.
1089* OneSteveLimit: Averted with two Jameses, also with a second John (the first being John the Baptist). Played straight with Simons, as Jesus named one "Peter" - but even then, yet another Simon was involved in the crucifixion.
1090* RedBaron: James and John are known as the "Sons of Thunder".
1091* TheSixthRanger: Matthias, who joins the Apostles after Judas committed suicide and serves as his replacement.
1092* WhatTheHellHero: Jesus did this to the disciples after they rebuked people for bringing their children to see Jesus.
1093
1094[[WMG:Simon Peter/Cephas]]
1095->''"And I name you Peter, for you are the rock from which I will build My church"''.
1096* BadassNickname: Jesus gave him the name "Peter", which is from the Greek word for stone, "petros" ("cephas" is another Greek word meaning the same thing). How cool must that have been to have Jesus call you "Rock"? (Though, to be fair, Jesus was also quick to point out when he ''wasn't'' living up to the name.)
1097* BigDamnHeroes: Subverted. He attempts to rescue Jesus from the clutches of the Romans during his arrest, but Jesus refuses to be rescued.
1098* CharacterDevelopment: Post-Pentecost, Peter becomes the new leader of Jesus's movement and gains maturity from it.
1099* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He was crucified. ''Upside down''. Though the latter part was a result of a LastRequest he made to his executioners, as he didn't feel he was worthy to die in the same manner as Jesus.
1100* GlamourFailure: He sees through Simon Magus' scams.
1101* HotBlooded:
1102** During two accounts of Jesus's arrest scene, Peter cuts off a soldier's ear with his sword (and one of these accounts makes it clear that, yes, [[AWizardDidIt Jesus healed it]]). This is just one of the many times Peter opens his mouth and inserts his foot.
1103** Also, the time when Jesus tells Peter that anything he asks by faith will be granted. The first thing Peter asks for? That Jesus doesn't have to die. Jesus immediately rebukes it, repeating that his death is preordained.
1104* TheLancer: Jesus left Peter in charge of the movement he started. According to the Catholic Church, the whole "I'm giving you the keys to my kingdom" scene represents Peter becoming the first pope.
1105* LivingLieDetector: One incident in Acts has a guy named Ananias attempting to commit fraud, but Peter sees right through the con. [[LaserGuidedKarma Ananias dies on the spot.]] A few hours later, Ananias's wife, Sapphira, tried to do the same and suffered the same fate.
1106* OneSteveLimit: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]]. Since there was another Simon among the twelve, Jesus gave him the Peter nickname instead.
1107* RedOniBlueOni: Initially, Peter was the hot blooded foil to Jesus's calm demeanor, but post-Pentecost, he got better and became Paul's foil.
1108
1109[[WMG:John the Apostle]]
1110->''"He who does not know love does not know God because God is love".''
1111* HotBlooded: He and James often fought over who would have a better position in Heaven, to the point where their mother had to ask Jesus in order to have them stop fighting.
1112* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jesus, if you think that "the disciple whom he loved" was him. That phrase is talking about platonic love not homosexual love
1113* OneSteveLimit: Averted with John the Apostle and John the Baptist.
1114
1115[[WMG:Judas Iscariot]]
1116->''"Have you come to betray the son of man with a kiss?"''
1117* DrivenToSuicide: After learning that Jesus was [[DespairEventHorizon going to be executed]].
1118%%* EtTuBrute
1119%%* FaceHeelTurn: His betrayal, obviously.
1120* HeelRealization: After learning that he basically sent Jesus to die just for thirty pieces of silver, he [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realized the gravity of his actions]] and hanged himself.
1121* {{Greed}}: Interesting note, the thirty pieces of silver Judas was paid is the same amount Jewish law requires you to pay someone if you murder their slave.
1122%%* LesCollaborateurs: A more common villainous example.
1123* MeaningfulName: Judas is the Greek form of Judah, the brother who got the idea to sell Joseph into slavery.
1124%%* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
1125* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Possibly. He stole from the poor (see below) and betrayed Jesus for money.
1126* StealingFromTheTill: This is noted of in John 12:6 when he is among those to complain when Mary Magdalene anointed Jesus:
1127--> "He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it."
1128* TropeNamers: To call someone a Judas is to say he is a traitor.
1129
1130[[WMG:Mary Magdalene]]
1131* AcceptableFeminineGoalsAndTraits: She actually averts this by the standards of her time and place. First, she was actually a successful businesswoman, which was unheard of in a time where the only feasible way for a woman to earn her own income was prostitution. In fact, her surname means "of the city of Magdala," whereas any other woman of the time would have a surname meaning "of [husband's name]." She was that independent, and used her assets to support Jesus' followers.
1132* AlliterativeName: Mary Magdalene.
1133* CanonDisContinuity: She had a whole gospel to herself in the Gnostic texts, but it's not considered canon by any modern religions.
1134* DemonicPossession: Supposedly had seven demons trapped within her, until Jesus healed her.
1135* DueToTheDead: In all four canonical gospels, she is one of the women who witness both Jesus's crucifixion, burial and empty tomb days later, having gone there to anoint his body with myrrh and other spices.
1136* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Traditionally she has been depicted as a harlot, but this comes from [[{{Fanon}} tradition]] and not from scripture. Even the unnamed "sinful woman" (who anointed Jesus with perfume as a gesture of honor as well as "cleaning" his feet with her tears and hair as penitence) is never stated to be a harlot.
1137* OneSteveLimit: Another aversion; she shares a name with Jesus' mother and other women named Mary.
1138* TheSmurfettePrinciple: While Jesus had other female followers, she is the most prominent in cultural depictions, mainly because the resurrected Jesus first appears to her in the Gospel of John while she is alone, and also due to the historical tendency in the West to conflate her with three other women - Mary of Bethany, a sinful woman, and a woman caught in adultery.
1139
1140[[WMG:Herod the Great]]
1141* AmbitionIsEvil:
1142* DisproportionateRetribution: He is told that someone would become the King of Jews, so he decides to kill Jewish newborns as a result.
1143* OneSteveLimit:
1144* TreacherousAdvisor: His sister, Salome.
1145* WouldHurtAChild: Orders the deaths of Jewish newborns simply because he was afraid of being overthrown by the supposedly new King of Jews who was recently born.
1146
1147[[WMG:Simon of Cyrene]]
1148* GotVolunteered: He is randomly picked during the crucifixion to carry the cross after Jesus collapses from exhaustion.
1149
1150[[WMG:Pontius Pilate]]
1151* HeelFaceTurn: Some stories say he converted to Christianity.
1152
1153[[WMG:Paul (Saul) of Tarsus]]
1154->''"Saul, Saul, why persecute thou me?"''
1155
1156* TheAtoner: When he had an epiphany on the road after witnessing Stephen's stoning, which inspired him to spread Christ's teachings.
1157%%* DeadpanSnarker (And how)
1158%%* {{Determinator}}
1159* HeelFaithTurn: Some interpretations speculate he was [[LightningCanDoAnything struck by lightning]].
1160* IconicSequelCharacter: He's one of the most important figures (if not ''the'' most important figure) in helping spread the faith during the first century but did not appear in the four main Gospels. Instead, he makes his first appearance during the Book of Acts.
1161* {{Jerkass}}: Before his conversion, he ruthlessly persecuted the Christians. He regrets it.
1162* OffWithHisHead: Being a Roman citizen, he had the right to die in a way seen as dignified instead of the very humiliating crucifixion.
1163* OneSteveLimit: Averted with his Hebrew name. He shares the it with the long-dead King Saul from the Old Testament.
1164* PragmaticAdaptation: Pauline Christianity does away with Jewish laws. For instance, in addition to the inherent pain of circumcision, it would've made Christians ineligible to go to the gymnasium.
1165* SixthRanger: Thought himself as one of the Apostles.
1166* SelfRestraint: Was once in jail with Silas when the wall miraculously collapsed - they stayed put.
1167* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Saul is Paul's Hebrew name. Due to having dual citizenship (Jewish and Greco-Roman), Saul/Paul has two names. Since Paul is mostly shown in Greco-Roman territory, he goes by Paul.
1168%%* ThePowerOfLove: See Corinthians 13.
1169* UnwantedFalseFaith: Acts 14, Paul and Barnabus are witnessing in one Greek city and performing some miracles while they were at it. The citizens of the city were convinced that they were the Gods, Hermes and Zeus respectively and set up a whole procession to sacrificing to them as such. The apostles had to go to considerable lengths trying to make them to stop. This, in turn, made it easier for troublemakers to convince the very same citizens to attempt stoning Paul and Barnabus to death.
1170
1171[[WMG:John from the Book of Revelation]]
1172->''"Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy... because the time is near."''
1173* CrypticBackgroundReference: It's never specified if this was the same John the Apostle, John Mark, or John the Evangelist, or some other unknown John. He definitely isn't John the Baptizer. Probably. Most Bible scholars and commentators are of the view that John the Revelator (as this one is sometimes called) and John the disciple of Jesus are the same person.
1174%%* DistantFinale: He wrote it.
1175%%* GainaxEnding
1176* MadOracle: He tends to give that impression, what with the MindScrew-y-ness of his book.
1177%%* NumerologicalMotif: Boy, howdy!
1178
1179[[WMG:Christians]]
1180* AppropriatedAppellation: "Christian" was originally a slur against Jesus' followers.
1181* TheAtoner "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness."
1182* FiveTokenBand: Eventually will include people from every tongue and tribe, no exceptions.
1183%%* HeelFaceTurn
1184* HumbleHero: Christians must be humble if they ever hope to see the kingdom of God.
1185%%* PalsWithJesus:
1186* TokenTrio: The Magi are traditionally portrayed as one: One from Europe, one from Africa, and one from India.
1187* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: There is considerable controversy over the Sign Gifts and the more mundane gifts. Paul [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower called the early church out]] on this bickering.
1188* WhatTheHellHero: Christians, while still alive, are still fallen. Inverted a little bit, for [[{{Hypocrite}} some have shouted the name of Christ but enacted the service of Satan.]]
1189
1190[[WMG:The Pharisees]]
1191->''"Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone."''
1192* GodNeverSaidThat: Invoked. God gave a number of general rules, but by Jesus' time these had been analyzed and quantified into strict rules by the Pharisees. When the Pharisees tried to call Jesus on his "rulebreaking", He often explained that they had over analyzed the letter of the law and missed the spirit completely. For example, the Pharisees said He violated the Sabbath's ban on work by healing someone; He explained that while the Sabbath is a day of rest it's never against God's law to help a person or show mercy on them (See Matthew 12).
1193* EvilCannotComprehendGood: "If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent."
1194* {{Greed}}: They turned the temple into a bank.
1195%%* HolierThanThou
1196* {{Hypocrite}}: Their religion was more to make them look good in front of men then out of any real love for God. For example, they got mad at the disciples for eating with unwashed hands, but they themselves plotted murder and stole from people.
1197* {{Irony}}: They had a reputation as being very religious. They also were some of Jesus's worst enemies.
1198* InsaneTrollLogic: They accused Jesus of being DemonicallyPossessed because He healed people and cast out demons.
1199%%* KnightTemplar
1200%%* LawfulStupid
1201* LoopholeAbuse: Sort of, [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem they had to make up a new rule to do it.]] They had a tradition that if something was declared "Corban" or "devoted to God" it was not to be used for secular use, and they would use that as a excuse not to use whatever it was to help their parents.
1202* MaliciousSlander: At least some of the stories about them are likely exaggerations or propaganda by Christians, since Pharisaic Judaism is the ideological source of modern Rabbinic Judaism, and they were bitter rivals.
1203* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Jesus called them out not only for being holier-than-thou, but for putting unnecessary restrictions on the average folk.
1204* RulesLawyer: And really didn't like it that Jesus' [[MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours Rule Fu Was Stronger]].
1205%%* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
1206%%* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem
1207* TokenGoodTeammate: Nicodemus. Possibly Joseph of Arimathea, though some simply call him a rich man.
1208* WhatTheHellHero: [[InvertedTrope They were not really heroes,]] they only [[KnightTemplar claimed]] to be, but the Pharisees made the temple into a den of thieves and Jesus rebuked them for this.
1209
1210[[WMG:ArchangelMichael]]
1211->''But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"''
1212* BreakoutCharacter: He is only mentioned a few times yet he appears in {{works}} enough to get his own page.
1213* FlamingSword: No mention of having one in the Bible, but often depicted with one.
1214%%* HumanoidAbomination: As in most angels.
1215* PlayingWithFire: He is often associated with fire.
1216* WingedHumanoid: Often depicted as this, though no mention of what he is supposed to really look like.
1217
1218[[WMG:ArchangelGabriel]]
1219->''The angel answered, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.''
1220* BreakoutCharacter:
1221** He is only mentioned a few times yet he appears in {{Works}} enough to get his own page.
1222** Most notable are the interpretations of Gabriel as the angel who spoke to Mohammed.
1223%%* HumanoidAbomination
1224* ShesAManInJapan: Literature/TheBible refers to him as male, but he is sometimes portrayed as female in {{Works}} and some new age beliefs. Granted, whether angels even have a sex at all is [[OurAngelsAreDifferent open to interpretation]], especially given how The Bible [[EldritchAbomination describes]] some of them.
1225* WingedHumanoid: Often depicted as this, though there is no mention of what he is supposed to really look like. Whatever he looks like, he scared Zechariah.
1226
1227[[WMG:[[AngelicTropes Other Angels]]]]
1228* AngelicAbomination: Their true forms.
1229* AngelUnaware: The angels that visited Lot and Abraham.
1230* {{Breakout Character}}s: Very common in {{Works}}.
1231%%* FallenAngel
1232* EldritchAbomination: See AngelicAbomination above.
1233* FriendToAllLivingThings: The Angel Of the LORD. He only spared Balaam's life for the sake of his donkey.
1234* FlamingSword: The cherubim guarding the way to the tree of life has one of these.
1235%%* GuardianAngel
1236* HalfHumanHybrid: The nephilim are believed to be the offspring of angel fathers and human mothers.
1237%%* HumanoidAbomination
1238* LightIsNotGood: In the Book of Enoch, among the fallen angels there's Shamsiel, the angel of the Sun, and many others associated with light, fire and stuff.
1239* MakingASplash: Ghaghiel and a few others are associated with water.
1240* MeaningfulName: Many of them deliver messages. In Hebrew, they're called malakhim. In Greek, they're called angeloi. Both mean "messenger".
1241%%* NoNameGiven: Most of them.
1242* OurAngelsAreDifferent: More specifically, "our angels are the originals, accept no substitutes".
1243%%* ThePowerOfTheSun: Also Shamsiel.
1244%%* SadlyMythtaken: The cherubim. Boy, howdy...
1245* UnwantedFalseFaith: John tried to worship an angel in Revelation, but the angel told him to stop as he was just a fellow servant and told him to worship God.
1246%%* WingedHumanoid: Often depicted as this.
1247
1248[[WMG:Zechariah, father of John the baptist]]
1249* TheSpeechless: He was unable to speak for a time because he did not believe the angel Gabriel when he said that he would have a son.
1250
1251[[WMG:The Four HorsemenOfTheApocalypse]]
1252->''"Authority was given to them over a fourth of the Earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the Earth."''
1253%%* AntiChrist: The first horseman, possibly.
1254* {{BFS}}: The 2nd horseman has a large sword.
1255* {{Breakout Character}}s: They show up in {{Works}} enough to get their own page.
1256* ColorCodedCharacters: White (conquest), Red (war), Black (famine) and Pale (death).
1257* DarkIsNotEvil: Possibly the last two, depending on your interpretation (as they were sent by Yahweh).
1258* EvilColonialist: The first horseman is thought to represent conquest and is stated to "go out conquering and to conquer".
1259* TheFamine: The third horseman is assumed to represent this, due to wielding a set of scales and the voice speaking of the cost of various crops.
1260* FourIsDeath: Literally. The fourth of them is the embodiment of death.
1261* GrimReaper: The 4th horseman is Death himself.
1262* {{Hellish Horse}}s: Each one rides on a fearsome color-coded horse.
1263* IconicItem: Each one wields a different item associated with them -- the first horseman has a golden crown and a bow and arrow; the second horseman has a sword; the third horseman has a set of scales; and Death, the fourth horseman, has the LegionsOfHell.
1264* LightIsNotGood: The first horseman on the white horse, depending on who you think he is and whether you see them as evil or not.
1265* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "His name was Death and Hell followed behind him."
1266* NoNameGiven: While the first three are easy to guess, only Death is actually given a name among them. The rest are assumed based on their attributes.
1267* PersonOfMassDestruction: Bad stuff happens when The 4th horseman comes around.
1268* RedIsViolent: The second horseman rides a red horse and seeks to make humans kill each other.
1269* SicklyGreenGlow: Death's pale horse is actually a pale ''green'' horse. Presumably because it's [[NauseaFuel rotting]].
1270* WarIsHell: The second horseman is thought to represent war.
1271* WhiteStallion: The rider on the white horse is the first one, but whether he is the leader or not is not said.
1272
1273[[WMG:The Beasts of Revelation]]
1274%%* AntiChrist
1275* AWolfInSheepsClothing: The lamb with the tongue of a dragon is probably meant to represent this.
1276* EldritchAbomination: The sea monster has seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns.
1277%%* MixAndMatchCritter
1278%%* PantheraAwesome: The leopard.
1279%%* VillainWithGoodPublicity
1280[[/folder]]
1281
1282[[folder:Deuterocanonical books]]
1283
1284!!Archangel Raphael
1285* AngelUnaware: When he first appears, he is disguised as Azarias the son of the great Ananias and is seen traveling with a blind man named Tobias. After many, many hints, including binding a demon, Raphael cures Tobias' blindness and presents himself as "the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord". He then proceeds to show him how to defeat the demon Asmodeus, who was killing every man his daugter married.
1286%%* BigBrotherMentor: To Tobias.
1287%%* HumanoidAbomination
1288%%* TheMedic
1289* WingedHumanoid: Often depicted as this, though no mention of what he is supposed to really look like.
1290
1291%%!!Tobias and Sarah
1292%%* TheDutifulSon (Tobias)
1293%%* KissingCousins
1294%%* OldMaid: Sarah was in danger of becoming one because...
1295
1296
1297!!Antiochus IV
1298%%* BigBad: Of Maccabees
1299* CruelAndUnusualDeath: While it was NOT unusual to torture people, the sheer ''extremes'' and "creativity" used in the case of the seven siblings and their mom is what puts him here.
1300** And then God dealed him one of these in form of a just as horrible illness.
1301* GodEmperor: Saw himself as this. He even named himself [[AGodAmI "Epiphanes"]], the divine. Everyone else called him [[DrunkWithPower "Epimanes"]], the mad.
1302
1303!!Judith
1304->''"We must destroy Israel, or its women will beguile the whole world!"''
1305%%* BeautyEqualsGoodness
1306* CanonDisContinuity: Catholics consider the book of Judith to be canon, Protestants don't.
1307%%* GuileHeroine
1308%%* LadyOfWar
1309* OffWithHisHead: Killed Holofernes by getting him drunk then decapitating him in his sleep.
1310%%* TheOjou: Type 2
1311[[/folder]]
1312

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